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“We must remain completely loyal to all government representatives to build a truly overseas Belgium in a spirit of perfect loyalty. We have no right, for any motive or in the hope of obtaining some small favours, to detract from the brilliant work of Leopold II, which was a work of resurrection, liberation and emancipation of the native population.”

Leopold Ii Belgium Belgian Congo Patrice Lumumba

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“We prefer freedom with poverty to wealth with tyranny.”

Belgium Brussels Round Table Conference

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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.”

Congo Belgian Congo Patrice Lumumba

Book:Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961

Source: Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961

“All together, dear brothers and sisters, workers and government employees, workers by brain and by hand, rich and poor, Africans and Europeans, Catholics and Protestants, Kimbanguists and Kitawalists, let us unite and create a great nation.”

Congo Belgian Congo Patrice Lumumba

Book:Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961

Source: Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961

“My dear countrymen! In joy and in sorrow I will always be with you. It is together with you that I fought to free my country from foreign rule. Together with you I am fighting to strengthen our national independence. Together with you, I will fight to preserve the integrity and national unity of the Republic of the Congo.”

Congo Belgian Congo Patrice Lumumba

Book:Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961

Source: Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961

“I know that an overwhelming majority of the Belgian people are against the oppression of Africans. They disapprove of a colonial status for the Congo under which 14 million Congolese are exposed to the diktat of a tiny economic oligarchy. If the Belgian people were to have their say, the Congo would never have experienced the misfortunes which are affecting it now.”

Congo Belgian Congo Patrice Lumumba

Book:Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961

Source: Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961

“Our dearest wish perhaps, some may find it utopian is to found in the Congo a Nation in which differences of race and religion will melt away, a homogeneous society composed of Belgians and Congolese who with a single impulse will link their hearts to the destinies of the country.”

Congo Belgian Congo Patrice Lumumba

Book:Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961

Source: Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961