Patrice Lumumba Quotes

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A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

Patrice Lumumba

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

Patrice Lumumba

We are going to bring peace to the country, not the peace of rifles and bayonets, but the peace that comes from men's hearts and their good will.

Patrice Lumumba

History will one day have its say; it will not be the history taught in the United Nations, Washington, Paris or Brussels, however, but the history taught in the countries that have rid themselves of colonialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history, and both north and south of the Sahara, it will be a history full of glory and dignity.

Patrice Lumumba

All of Africa is irrevocably engaged in a merciless struggle against colonialism and imperialism We wish to bid farewell to the rule of slavery and bastardization that has so severely wronged us. Any people that oppresses another people is neither civilized nor Christian.

Patrice Lumumba