5 Quotes & Sayings By Patrick Lo Lumumba

Patrick L.O. Lumumba is a former United Nations advisor, former Minister of Justice, former Minister of Health, and current Chairman of the Board of the World Bank. He is also President of the American Committee for Africa (first African American to head an international organization). A leader in the struggle for Black liberation, Dr Read more

Lumumba was imprisoned for twenty-four years in apartheid South Africa, where he died in 1977. He was professor at Howard University and Pan-African University, and became a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights in 1974.

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I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win. Patrick L.O. Lumumba
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You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer. Patrick L.O. Lumumba
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We live in a country where our young ladies who have recently attained the age of puberty cannot afford sanitary pads, but our men and women in public offices have ipads which they do not even know how to use. Patrick L.O. Lumumba
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We are the third world not because the sun rises on the West and sets in the East but because we have engaged the reverse gear and we are moving with jet like speed in the wrong direction -we must change this by rolling up our sleeves and working for the growth of our country. Patrick L.O. Lumumba