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P L O Lumumba Quotes By Chiwetel Ejiofor

If you're looking at people like Patrice Lumumba, you are looking at people who had a very definite plan, and events overran them. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Barbara Kingsolver

I was occupied so entirely by each day, I felt detached from anything so large as a month or a year. History didn't cross my mind. Now it does. Now I know, whatever your burdens, to hold yourself apart from the lot of more powerful men is an illusion. On that awful day in January 1961, Lumumba paid with a life and so did I. On the wings of an owl the fallen Congo came to haunt even our little family, we messengers of goodwill adrift on a sea of mistaken intentions. — Barbara Kingsolver

P L O Lumumba Quotes By PLO Lumumba

The tragedy of Africa is that Africans are in the business of canonizing thieves and demonizing its saints. — PLO Lumumba

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You know who really killed Lumumba?" Master said, looking up from a magazine. "It was the Americans and the Belgians. It had nothing to do with Katanga. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Marlon James

I also know that too many people talk too much, especially the American, who never shut up, just switch to a laugh every time he talk 'bout you, and it sound strange how he put your name beside people we never hear 'bout, Allende Lumumba, a name that sound like a country that Kunta Kinte come from. The American, most of the time hide him eye with sunglasses like he is a preacher from America come to talk to black people. Him and the Cuban come sometimes together, sometimes on they own, and when one talk the other always quiet. The Cuban don't fuck with guns because guns always need to be needed, him say. — Marlon James

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Patrick L.O. Lumumba

When I look at Africa many questions come to mind, many times I have asked myself what would happen if Dr Kwame Nkrumah and Patrice Lumumba were to rise up and see what is happening, many times I have asked myself what would happen if Nelson Madiba Mandela were to rise up and see what is happening, because what they will be confronted with is an Africa where the Democratic Republic of Congo is unsettled, there is a war going on there, but it's not on the front pages of our newspapers because we don't even control our newspapers and the media. — Patrick L.O. Lumumba

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Patrick L.O. Lumumba

Third World is a state of the mind and until we change our attitude as Africans, if there is a fourth, fifth and even sixth world, we will be in it. — Patrick L.O. Lumumba

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Patrice Lumumba

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue. — Patrice Lumumba

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Patrick L.O. Lumumba

I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win. — Patrick L.O. Lumumba

P L O Lumumba Quotes By PLO Lumumba

Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time. — PLO Lumumba

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Patrick L.O. Lumumba

Our country must morally re-arm. We cannot run a country where virtue is vice and vice is virtue. We cannot live in a country where the looters of yester-years assume they have undergone a Pauline conversion because they are in opposition and oppose the Government of the day. Some of our richest men and women are to be found in politics and their creed is, thou shall reap what thou hath not sown. — Patrick L.O. Lumumba

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Noam Chomsky

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years. — Noam Chomsky

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Patrick L.O. Lumumba

We are the third world not because the sun rises on the West and sets in the East but because we have engaged the reverse gear and we are moving with jet like speed in the wrong direction -we must change this by rolling up our sleeves and working for the growth of our country. — Patrick L.O. Lumumba

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Patrick L.O. Lumumba

We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use. — Patrick L.O. Lumumba

P L O Lumumba Quotes By Imraan Coovadia

They waited for the bill. On the borders there were new guerrilla armies. The rouble and the dollar had replaced the pound sterling. The kilometre and the kilogram and the litre were new ways of measuring miles and imperial pounds and fluid ounces. In Zaire, Patrice Lumumba had been murdered on the instruction of the White House. They wanted to expel her son for possessing two bottles of brandy. The measurements made by Curzon College were as outdated as yards and inches. They didn't know what counted. — Imraan Coovadia

P L O Lumumba Quotes By PLO Lumumba

Never lose sight of an antelope for a dashing squirrel. — PLO Lumumba