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“Raise your head, my brother; the days of servitude are over.”

Source: Speech in Cairo on the third anniversary of the revolution, 22 July 1955 (translated from Arabic)

Context At a rally in Cairo's Republic Square for the revolution's third anniversary, attended by Indonesia's President Sukarno, he announced that Sudan would soon be free of foreign troops.

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Gamal Abdel NasserEgypt · 1918–1970
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