Africa is Our Motherland!

"Throughout my struggle for the independence of my country, I have never doubted for a single instant that the sacred cause to which my comrades and I have dedicated our entire lives would triumph in the end."

"But what we wanted for our country for our country - its right to a honorable life, to perfect dignity, to independence with no restrictions - was never wanted by Belgian colonialism and its western allies, who found direct and indirect, intentional and unintentional support among certain high officials of the United Nations, that body which we placed all our trust when we called on it for help."

"They have corrupted some of our countrymen: they have bought others; they have done their part to distort the truth and defile our independence."

"What is important is the Congo, our poor people whose independence has been turned into a cage, with people looking at us from outside the bars, sometimes with charitable compassion, sometimes with glee and delight."

"I know and feel in my very heart of hearts that sooner or later my people will rid themselves of all their enemies, foreign and domestic, that they will rise up as one to say no to the shame and degradation of colonialism and regain the dignity in the pure light of day."

"We are not alone.  Africa, Asia and the free and liberated peoples in every corner of the globe will ever remain at the side of the millions of Congolese who will not abandon the struggle until the day when there will be no more of their mercenaries in our country."