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Our Country must not have leaders whose greatest claim to fame is ill-gotten wealth and bellicose speeches at funerals.

— 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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