Quote by 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

“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

“This would mean, according to the estimates, that during the Leopold period and its immediate aftermath the population of the territory dropped by approximately…

— Adam Hochschild

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

— Anonymous

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

— Adam Hochschild

“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

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

— Adam Hochschild

“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

“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

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

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

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

— Michael Foster