Congo Quotes - Page 2

• If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

  David Quammen

  Lying, Reading, World

  Fuente: www.bostonglobe.com

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• The Congo is really beautiful. People correct me and say, "Oh, you mean the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Well, fine. But, the land there, the landscape is extraordinary. It's big lakes and beautiful hills and trees.

  Alice Walker

  Beautiful, Mean, Lakes

  Fuente: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust was confident, yet she was raped and assaulted and treated brutally. Commenting later, she said, "I must ask myself a question as if it came directly from the Lord, 'Can you thank Me for trusting you with this experience even if I never tell you why?'" What a profound thought. God has trusted each of us with our own set of unfair circumstances and unexplained experiences to deal with. Can we still trust in Him even if He never tells us why?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Strong, Years, Uprising

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• El asesinato de Lumumba, en el que participó Estados Unidos, en el Congo destruyó la mayor esperanza de desarrollo de África. El Congo es ahora una historia de horror total, desde hace años.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Horror Stories, Development

  "Part I: Instead of “Illegal” Threat to Syria, U.S. Should Back Chemical Weapons Ban in All Nations. Part II: Chomsky on 9/11, Syria's “Bloody Partition” and Why U.S. Role Ensures Failure of Mideast Talks". Interview with Amy Goodman, chomsky.info. September 11, 2013.

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• Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Men, Jewels, Kingdoms

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.170, Faber & Faber

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• Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  David Suzuki

  Country, Rights, Sri Lanka

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• I created the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation back in 1997 for the purpose of going in and improving the living conditions of my people on the African continent, especially in the Democratic Republic of Congo where I came from. Our first mission was to go and build a new hospital. Our next mission was to build a school.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  School, People, Foundation

  "Dikembe Mutombo stands tall for charity". Interview with Giacinta Pace, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2010.

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• 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 newspapers or in the library, so I felt I had to get on a plane and go to Africa and find the story myself. I felt there was a complete absence in the media of their narrative. It's very different now, but when I went in 2004 that was definitely the case.

  Lynn Nottage

  War, Media, Library

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• Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Boss, May, Judgment

  "Stranger in a Strange Land".

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• El Neo-Hoodoo son las 8 danzas básicas del Place Congo de Nueva Orleans del siglo XIX -la Calinda, la Bamboula, la Chacta, la Babouille, la Conjaille, la Juba, el Congo y el VooDoo- modernizadas en el Philly Dog, el Hully Gully, el Funky Chicken, el Popcorn, el Boogaloo y la danza del gran coreógrafo estadounidense Buddy Bradley.

  Ismael Reed

  Perro, Nueva Orleans, Palomitas de maíz

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• Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil - without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle.

  Frances Ford Seymour

  Science, Hunting, Community

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• We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Cake, Georgia, Bethlehem

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• Yo soy negro: Soy la encarnación de una fusión completa con el mundo, una comprensión intuitiva de la tierra, un abandono de mi ego en el corazón del cosmos, y ningún hombre blanco, por muy inteligente que sea, podrá jamás comprender a Louis Armstrong y la música del Congo.

  Frantz Fanon

  Corazón, Inteligente, Hombres

  Frantz Fanon (1967). "Piel negra, máscaras blancas", p.45, Pluto Press

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• One of the reasons why I say we all need to work together to save the Congo forest, because if we don't save the Congo forest, the Amazon forest and the southeast Asia forest, if those forests release the carbon they are trapping at the moment, much of what you will be doing in the North will be negated by the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere.

  Wangari Maathai

  Atmosphere, Together, Asia

  Fuente: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• En la República Democrática del Congo, donde se cree que se registra uno de los índices de violencia sexual más elevados del mundo, las niñas y las mujeres se enfrentan a mayores peligros en el camino hacia la seguridad.

  Desconocido

  Girl, Safety, World

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• We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the bonobo apes of the Congo. Here mothers have a great deal of authority, there is very little violence (with no signs of sexual violence against females), and their society is held together by sharing and caring rather than by fear and force.

  Riane Eisler

  Mother, Caring, Whales

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Si te limitas a exponer argumentos racionales sobre por qué la gente debería preocuparse por el Congo y cómo han muerto 5 millones de personas, la gente tiende a no mostrarse receptiva. Pero una vez que has creado una conexión de empatía, los argumentos racionales pueden desempeñar un papel de apoyo.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Empathy, Supportive

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• I certainly think that many of the themes, and many of the ways that I wrote about Congo, will continue to live on in my work. One of the fundamental aspects of my work is for myself and the reader to see the world that they think they know in a different way.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Thinking, Different, World

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• The first victim in journalism today is proximity. I know I've used that word a lot. Because of foreign budgets, newspapers have consolidated, and journalists now cover dozens of countries at a time. It is physically not possible for one person to understand and live the unique sets of experiences in all these places in honest and meaningful ways. Outlets used to send journalists to places like Congo for months at a time, and they were stationed there for months or years. There was a sense of immersive reporting, and that has been a casualty of the shift in news over the past years.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Meaningful, Country, Unique

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

  Langston Hughes

  Sleep, Sunset, New Orleans

  "El negro habla de los ríos" l. 1 (1921)

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• 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 the stories we tell each other. Yet it's relevant to our lives and to our worlds, in a practical way. Congo supplies raw materials for the things that we use on a daily basis. We are intimately linked to Congo, economically. We're linked to it through human events that are occurring there, that affect all of us, and yet you don't find narratives of Congo present in our lives.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Imagination, World, Relevant

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I really intend to achieve is to be that fly on the wall, and to try and observe as much as I can without affecting what I've seen. I want to get a sense that what I'm seeing in a place would have happened had I not be there. Were I to make myself an important presence, that would be lost. The danger of a certain other kind of reporting is that people give you what they think you are seeking. People know what you want. When I was traveling in Congo and Rwanda and people asked me what I wanted, I would say, "Nothing. I just want to be here." And that immediately disarmed them.

  Anjan Sundaram

  Pared, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible.

  Paul Kagame

  Responsible, Situation, Shows

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Over the years, the diamond industry has had a devastating impact in countries such as Sierra Leone, Angola and the Congo, where profits from the sale of diamonds have been used to fund brutal wars, with disastrous effects on local communities.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  País, Guerra, Años

  "Green Scene: Pop the Right Questions". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 07, 2009.

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• I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.

  Eve Ensler

  New York, Paris, Saint

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