Freedom Fight Quotes
Mobutu with Amerucan CIA and French assistance deposed Lumumba, murdered him, and seized power.
He had been King of Portugal and then had come to the Portuguese colony of Brazil where he led a revolution against Portugal, declared independence from the “mother country, and was elected as Emperor of Brazil. The Colony was much larger and richer in natural resources than the “mother country.”
Shortly after he refused to join, his brother who had joined the Resistance had been captured, tortured and murdered by the Germans. He then joined the active resistance even though the Americans had not yet arrived. He realized that resistance was just an annoyance to the Germans, and the time the Resistance could really make a difference was after the Americans and British had landed in France.
Nagy was executed 2 years later by the Russian controlled Hungarian government after the revolution was put down.
Helen Keller was a remarkable woman who was blind and deaf, and yet she became a great orator and social reformer.
