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
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom. — 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
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
I go to the Congo or the Amazon, but every river has its mystery of what is down there. — Jeremy Wade 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 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
The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's actually an incredible amount of parallels between working in central Congo in a remote, isolated village and doing research aboard the… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, believed to have one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world, girls… — Anonymous 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
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
“China has gone on a logging orgy outside its borders, often illegally, to procure logs from Indonesia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, and… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The reason we do activism is because, maybe you haven't been raped or abused, but there are millions of people who can't… — Rosario Dawson Copy Share Image
“Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to… — Siddharth Kara 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
There is a structural difference between the way that Europe views Israel, and America views Israel. The European view is informed by… — Benjamin Netanyahu 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
“My rights to the Congo are not for sharing; they are the fruits of my labours and my expenditures . . .… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The rebel militias, the Congo’s African neighbors, and many of their corporate allies have little interest in ending the country’s Balkanization. They… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to… — Mo Ibrahim 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
“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
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
“I am glad that Hochschild admits that the photographs in his book are fake. Still, to his point, I do not doubt… — Bruce Gilley 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
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
What I really intend to achieve is to be that fly on the wall, and to try and observe as much as… — Anjan Sundaram 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
“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
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
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
The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible. — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
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