"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 blood of the Congolese people will not be shed in vain."

"Our dearest wish perhaps, some may find it utopian is to found in the Congo a Nation in which differences of race and religion will melt away, a homogeneous society composed of Belgians and Congolese …"

"The colonialists have enriched themselves at our expense without the slightest shame."

"Neither brutality nor cruelty nor torture will ever bring me to ask for mercy."