“I'm not interested in whether I'm better than you; only whether I'm better than yesterday.” — Mike Ormsby Copy Share Image
All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is. — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Even in Congo, where conflicts are happening, people have births, weddings, deaths, and celebrations. — Lynn Nottage 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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
“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 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
The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo.… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“Adam Hochschild has enjoyed a long run of success with King Leopold’s Ghost, his distortionary 1998 tale about the État Indépendant du… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was born in a forest area,… — Corneille Ewango 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a… — Frances Ford Seymour Copy Share Image
“Hochschild is correct that the demographer Léon de St. Moulin assayed the 50 percent decline possibility (in 1987 and 1990 works). But… — Bruce Gilley Copy Share Image
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My… — Langston Hughes 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'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
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
All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit… — Richard H. Davis Copy Share Image
My background is very much tropical rainforests. We did a lot in the earlier series in places like the Amazon and the… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Congo is one of the least-developed countries in the world, and has millions of acres of virtually untouched forest. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
I go to play for Congo now and it's a reality check. You see how it is for some people and you… — Yannick Bolasie Copy Share Image
It's something powerful to receive all this love. In the street. In Congo, everywhere. But it's also hellish at the same time.… — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
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