Life Quote by Adam Hochschild

“We live a life of privilege. That doesn’t mean we can literally switch off these women, whose only fault was being born in the…

— Maria Semple

“To the Africans throughout the Congo conscripted to work on these and other new enterprises, the Great Depression, paradoxically, brought lifesaving relief.”

— Adam Hochschild

“In the American South, there are hundreds of Civil War battle monuments and preserved plantation manor houses for every exhibit that in any way…

— Adam Hochschild

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century.…

— Angie Thomas

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“The old man might have been drunk, but he was right. Outsiders have robbed and exploited the people of the Congo ever since the…

— Tim Butcher

“What if I can't save Congo, but I try anyway? Would it be better to do nothing? Did he abolitionists really think they could…

— Lisa Shannon

“That was my Malawian epiphany. Only Africans were capable of making a difference in Africa. All the others, donors and volunteers and bankers, however…

— Paul Theroux

“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind…

— Susie Larson

“Thousands of refugees who had fled across the Congo River to escape Leopold’s regime eventually fled back to escape the French. The”

— Adam Hochschild

“The thought is of the chain of corpses stretching across the Atlantic Ocean to connect Lagos with New Orleans. New Orleans was the largest…

— Teju Cole

“But a Congolese life is like the useless Congolese bill, which you can pile by the fistful or the bucketful into a merchant's hand,…

— Barbara Kingsolver