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"Congolese have to sit around a table and come out with a position on how to organize the transition to democracy."

— Ernest Wamba dia Wamba

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"Security is never established as an event, it is a process."

"The conflict is about power sharing and access to resources in the context of a weak and discriminatory state."

"The hope is that the forces that are for the success of the dialogue will prevail."

"The Congolese people have been through 11 wars and are very tired."

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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