Patrice Émery Lumumba Quotes in Lumumba (2000)

[first lines]

Patrice Émery Lumumba: [voice over narration] You never knew about that night in Katanga. No one was to know.

Patrice Émery Lumumba: [voice over narration] I only gave voice to words of freedom and brotherhood, words they couldn't accept. Just words.

Patrice Émery Lumumba: Not collaboration, civil disobedience. Eighty years is enough.

[last lines]

Patrice Émery Lumumba: [voice over narration] Don't weep my love. One day history will have its say. Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris or Washington, but our history. That of a new Africa. And on that day...