Quotes Tagged With :congo

I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's....

My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure....

In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken.

Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly....

And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates....

As so often happens in politics, what appears to be politically expedient for those in power rarely overlaps....

To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away....

He [Stanley] had stated that he longed to do something wonderful for the African tribes along the Congo,....

The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will....

the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest....