“My rights to the Congo are not for sharing; they are the fruits of my labours and my expenditures . . .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see,… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
“The collapse of the state in this large swathe of Africa meant that its people either relied on the charity of outsiders… — Tim Butcher Copy Share Image
There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“I taught myself that a South African woman does not carry her baby with a kitenge. That I stay in a township,… — Tsholofelo Lehaha Copy Share Image
I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“God who distributed the goods of the earth among the regions and peoples of the earth, has therefore made them no less… — Jozef-Ernest van Roey Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs.… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
My purpose at that time was to expand my experience of the world and to immerse myself as deeply as I could… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“When, in February 1885, at the Berlin Conference that not a single Congolese attended, the fourteen participating powers, headed by Great Britain,… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not… — Michela Wrong Copy Share Image
“Hochschild just can’t seem to get over the fact that life was very, very different long ago. I, for one, am less… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
The main mineral in your cellphone, coltan [a black metallic ore], comes from the Eastern Congo. Multinational corporations are there exploiting the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I see courage everywhere I go in Africa. Fearless human rights activists in Darfur. Women peace advocates in eastern Congo. Former child… — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very… — Corneille Ewango Copy Share Image
I go to the Congo or the Amazon, but every river has its mystery of what is down there. — 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
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
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
I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America. — Cynthia McKinney 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
We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. — Barbara Kingsolver 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
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 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
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
My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent,… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years ago my two main target species were goliath tigerfish and arapaima from the Amazon. Each took me six years to… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant… — Eduardo Paolozzi Copy Share Image
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