Quote by Adam Hochschild

“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

“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

“He and his supporters never doubted that if only Britain were to act, it could force Leopold to mend his ways or could wrest…

— Adam Hochschild

“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.”

— Adam Hochschild

“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

“  ‘WHERE ARE WE GOING?’ Leopold asked after many hours,”

— Michael Foster

And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped…

— Adam Hochschild

“In little more than a generation, the Belgian king’s yearning for empire and fortune may have killed ten million people in the territory—half of…

— Howard W. French

“When, in February 1885, at the Berlin Conference that not a single Congolese attended, the fourteen participating powers, headed by Great Britain, the United…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at…

— Adam Hochschild

“We run the risk of someday seeing our native population collapse and disappear,” fretfully declared the permanent committee of the National Colonial Congress of…

— Adam Hochschild

“When a country goes from a population of 3 million to a population of 300 million (to say nothing of the radical increase in…

— Thomas Piketty