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“No Congolese will ever forget that independence was won in struggle.”
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The quote says that independence was achieved through struggle, and that this history should remain firmly remembered by Congolese people. “Won” presents independence as something earned through effort rather than simply handed over.
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- Marxists Internet Archive, citing Patrice Lumumba, The Truth about a Monstrous Crime of the Colonialists (1961)
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