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All together, dear brothers and sisters, workers and government employees, workers by brain and by hand, rich and poor, Africans and Europeans, Catholics and Protestants, Kimbanguists and Kitawalists, let us unite and create a great nation.

— 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.

Without dignity there is no liberty, without justice there is no dignity, and without independence there are no free men.

Kamina, is the first enterprise we are going to nationalise in Congo.

We know, that some Congolese are well off, but they are in the minority; meanwhile we are concerned with the majority of the population.

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