PLO Lumumba Quotes

b. 1962

Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba (born 17 July 1962) is a Kenyan lawyer, activist, and public speaker. Born in Usenge, a town in Siaya County, Kenya., he is an Advocate of the High Courts of Kenya and Tanzania and a notable Pan-Africanist recognised as one of the leading public speakers across the African diaspora.He served as the director of the Kenya School of Law and as director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission from July 2010 to August 2011.

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If Kenya is to be great in fact and not in prospect, then you young men and women must make a resolve today, that you are the young suckers that will take over when the old bananas die.

We cannot live in a country where the looters of yesteryears assume they have undergone a Pauline-conversion because they are in opposition and oppose the Government of the day.

I will not embrace cheap heroism by pretending to be a fire eating pseudo-revolutionary. I prefer to be called names, but I will remain a servant of my conscience and a warrior for truth and justice.

I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win.

We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use.

If our young men and women desire to compete with their counterparts from other countries, they must exorcise the ghost of self-doubt and suckle from the breasts of knowledge. Knowledge is the potent antidote against underdevelopment.

Success is failure turned inside out. If you want to graduate from a “Johnny nobody” to a big “Kahuna”, you must obey the divine order to subdue the earth and have dominion over it; otherwise, the earth will subdue you and have dominion over you.