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I request the president release me and my family.” “I am being victimised … because I have political ambitions.”

— Diane Rwigara

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“Some of the statistics on Rwanda’s development appear to be cooked.”

“This is the second time you cheat me out of my right to campaign.”

“I am innocent and the charges are fabricated because I opposed the ruling party.”

We’re only allowed to do or say certain things as dictated by the ruling party. If you don’t, you pay a high price.

“When time comes for leaders to leave power, they get excuses to stay and then say that it is the people who are asking them to continue to lead. This is a bad habit across the continent.”

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

Étienne de La Boétie Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548)

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

Jean de La Bruyère Les Caractères (1688)

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