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
We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle. — Barbara Kingsolver 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
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
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
The Democratic Republic of Congo was the most unbelievable place I have ever seen. Now, I'm not normally a massive fan of… — Stacey Dooley 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
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
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
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
“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
I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
“Shortly afterwards, it sounded as if the rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were landing dangerously close - so close that I immediately dropped to… — samantha nutt Copy Share Image
“He [Stanley] had stated that he longed to do something wonderful for the African tribes along the Congo, and instead, as would… — Tim Jeal Copy Share Image
“On another point: King Leopold’s Ghost reproduces some of the photographs of Congo atrocities that fueled the worldwide protests against Leopold’s rule… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I was not very strong growing up, and my uncle used to look at me, like, 'This kid is not growing up,… — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people accuse us of taking coltan from Congo, I don't understand what they mean. The quality of our own coltan here… — Paul Kagame 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
“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
“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 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
“In little more than a generation, the Belgian king’s yearning for empire and fortune may have killed ten million people in the… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
“Stanley must have realized that this postponement would probably be fatal. But while he did not give up, he never for a… — Tim Jeal Copy Share Image
My last point about getting started as a writer: do something first, good or bad, successful or not, and write it up… — Jeffery Taylor 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
“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
“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
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 cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need. — Dikembe Mutombo 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
Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ask anybody from Africa which country is the best in terms of dressing, and they'll tell you Congo. — Serge Ibaka Copy Share Image
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