"The colonialists have turned our brothers into instruments of their domination."

"We are not Communists, Catholics, or Socialists. We are African nationalists."

"We know that there are some here who want to put the clock back, but we will not allow them to do so."

"Dead, living, free, or in prison on the orders of the colonialists, it is not I who counts. It is the Congo, it is our people for whom independence has been transformed into a cage."

"The truth is that the Belgian government, with the complicity of the UN, wanted to get rid of me."