"The world must recognize our right to self-determination."

"Blacks, like whites, are intelligent and courageous. They want to control their own affairs and develop their own country."

"The day will come when history will speak. But it will not be the history that is taught in Brussels, Paris, Washington, or the United Nations... Africa will write its own history and in both north an…"

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

"The Congo belongs to the Congolese people."