Burning Quote by Adam Hochschild

“Sorry, but they’re burning the State archives.” The furnaces burned for eight days, turning most of the Congo state records to ash and smoke…

— Adam Hochschild

I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the…

— Lynn Nottage

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

— Dikembe Mutombo

“My rights to the Congo are not for sharing; they are the fruits of my labours and my expenditures . . . The adversaries…

— Anonymous

“Keep your head down, think small, look after yourself: these constituted the lessons of Leopold. The spirit, once comprehensively crushed, does not recover easily.…

— Michela Wrong

Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror

— Donald Miller

There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its…

— Paul Kagame

You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in…

— Anjan Sundaram

“Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how…

— Siddharth Kara

“(After relaying horrific stories that have been shared in popular news.) All of these stories are true. The conflict has seen acts of cannibalism…

— Jason K. Stearns

We are not held accountable for how the economy ravages Congo. Governments aren't held accountable for foreign policies that they exercise there. There are…

— Anjan Sundaram