I know that an overwhelming majority of the Belgian people … - Patrice Lumumba

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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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Patrice Émery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese independence leader and the first democratically elected leader of the Congo. As founder and leader of the mainstream Mouvement National Congolais (MNC) party, Lumumba played an important role in campaigning for independence from the Belgian Colonial Empire.

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Native Name: Patrice Émery Nibba Lumumba

Alternative Names: Patrice Emery Lumumba • Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa • Élias Okit'Asombo

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Leopold II of Belgium Nelson Mandela Baudouin I of Belgium Mengistu Haile Mariam Frederick Douglass

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in this sphere even Belgium who, understanding in the end the sense of history, did not try any harder to oppose our independence, is prepared to give us her help and friendship.

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

We know, that some Congolese are well off, but they are in the minority; meanwhile we are concerned with the majority of the population.

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… - Patrice Lumumba

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