I go to the Congo or the Amazon, but every river has its mystery of what is down there. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
My favourite place was in The Congo. It's where I began to write songs and build myself as an adult. — Jain Copy Share Image
“In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken.” — Tim Butcher Copy Share Image
The Congo was the most difficult shoot of my life but was also maybe the greatest adventure of my life. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Electronics companies are purchasing the minerals that come out of the Eastern Congo, and they are illicit; they're dirty. — Robin Wright Copy Share Image
I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's… — Alex Morrison Copy Share Image
It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
“He and his supporters never doubted that if only Britain were to act, it could force Leopold to mend his ways or… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
One place that I have very strong memories of is the Congo. That's somewhere I've been to four times. It's not a… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I'm involved with health care/medical supply delivery to Africa and started a non-profit organization to bring supplies to Congo. — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
What you have in Iraq is not just a society coming apart like Yugoslavia or Congo. What is at stake is not… — Vali Nasr Copy Share Image
“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes,… — Lisa Shannon Copy Share Image
We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“I also do not begrudge Hochschild his millions, although, unlike him, I have untold praise for the capitalist system that produced them… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why I say we all need to work together to save the Congo forest, because if we don't… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it… — Tim Butcher Copy Share Image
Syria is bad enough, it's a pretty terrible atrocity. But there are much worse ones in the world. So for example, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
“As to the efficacy of the policy recommended by Rostow, it speaks for itself: no country, once underdeveloped, ever managed to develop… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“I wish I could write their individual stories in the book of our lives with indelible ink, because we cannot compel the… — Hemley Boum Copy Share Image
“As I wrote, despite the malicious craft practiced by Hochschild and others, I am glad that an extensive documentary record of the… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
“I wish that Hochschild would come clean on the litany of other errors I catalogue in my essay: Conrad could not have… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
“Hochschild insists on calling the EIC an example of “colonialism”, stretching the term beyond its meaning. European colonies were governed by and… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there.… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
“Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Much is at stake. In giving Hochschild its Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award in 2008, the American Historical Association claimed that King Leopold’s… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
“As for the claims by the Congolese historian Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem (“13 million killed” in 1998, then “5 to 10 million… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“The negro workers are still unaware of the force that can give them union organization; happy industrialists.” — King Albert I of Belgium Copy Share Image
I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need. — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle. — Sean Pertwee Copy Share Image
