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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.

— PLO Lumumba

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You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer.

The tragedy of this country is that one is judged by his ethnic extraction rather than the content of his mind.

We cannot run a country where virtue is vice and vice is a virtue.

Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel.

A man may be a political animal, but there comes a time in a person’s life when true service must be the ultimate goal. In the history of our country, this is the time.

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