“Often it’s not the bad things that split people apart but the opportunities.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Bad thing Copy Share Image
“With crowds, it can always go either way. You have to be respectful. But the energy of a crowd, man, the way… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“The superpowers took some of the least developed areas on earth, like the Somali desert or the Congo River basin, and pumped… — Jeffrey Gettleman Nature Copy Share Image
“however crazy this world gets, however accustomed to misery someone may be, we are all the same. No one ever totally gives… — Jeffrey Gettleman Hope Copy Share Image
“We were trying to rebuild people in our image, convincing them that our way of doing things was superior to their way,… — Jeffrey Gettleman Doing things Copy Share Image
“People were selling pyramids of oranges from wooden carts. Powdered milk and sacks of grain sat on the shelves of the little… — Jeffrey Gettleman Food Copy Share Image
“More people were slaughtered, hour by hour, in Rwanda than during the height of the Holocaust, and the Hutus didn’t have cattle… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“maybe out here, you didn’t have to move through life hopelessly alone.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Life Copy Share Image
“Worrying about wildlife that we so love to observe can sound painfully quaint - this is exactly what Binyavanga Wainaina parodied in… — Jeffrey Gettleman Animals Copy Share Image
“The aid industry has saved millions of lives, but it is complicated (and maybe this is a necessary evil) by a set… — Jeffrey Gettleman Necessary evil Copy Share Image
“The cook, the gardener, and the guard stayed behind the main house in a cold-water shack with a rusted roof, like a… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“He taught me more about aid work than anyone else. He knew that it took strategy, not heart.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“The values that America stands for are superb; it’s what we do, especially in those places few Americans care about, like the… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
“These young men said they had plenty of friends of different tribes back in “uni,” but up here, it was different. “Why… — Jeffrey Gettleman Around the world Copy Share Image
“More than 2,000 years ago Herodotus wrote, “In peaceful times, children inter their parents. In war times, parents inter their children.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Time Copy Share Image
“Africa had the rotten luck to gain its freedom at the height of the Cold War, which meant dozens of young nations… — Jeffrey Gettleman Cold war Copy Share Image
“Everybody should work at a small newspaper. The amount of life you take in is staggering.” — Jeffrey Gettleman Life Copy Share Image
“What if they didn’t even want my help? From pit latrines to condoms, we were trying to assist countless people in every… — Jeffrey Gettleman Copy Share Image
