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“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.”

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

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

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