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Neither cruelty, nor violence, nor torture will make me beg for mercy, because I prefer to die with my head raised high, with unshakeable faith... In my country’s predestination rather than live in submission forsaking my sacred principles.

— 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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