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Our wounds are too fresh and too smarting for us to be able to have known ironies, insults, and blows which we had to undergo morning, noon and night because we were Negroes. We have seen our lands spoiled in the name of laws which only recognised the right of the strongest. We have known laws which differed according to whether it dealt with a black man or a white.

— Patrice Lumumba

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No one is perfect in this imperfect world.

We who suffered in our bodies and hearts from colonialist oppression, we say to you out loud: from now on, all that is over.

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