Anjan Sundaram > Quotes

“The collapse, the crisis. It is how the world knows Congo. Death is as widespread in few places. Children born here have the bleakest futures. It is the most diseased, the most corrupt, and the least habitable—the country heads nearly every conceivable blacklist. One survey has it that no nation has more citizens who want to leave.”
― Anjan Sundaram, Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo

“The big politicians escaped. They told us to kill but are now in five-star foreign prisons, with good food and televisions. We little people must bear the consequences for their decisions.”
― Anjan Sundaram

“Even if the state thought it was doing good, Roger insisted, that was perhaps the most dangerous kind of policy, and where the journalist was most necessary.”
― Anjan Sundaram, Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship

“The police are always brutal. Because they have no power, they just follow the orders. You saw how nice this man was being with you? He has power.”
― Anjan Sundaram, Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship

“The written word offered subversive possibilities in a dictatorship, offered some hope of freedom.”
― Anjan Sundaram, Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship

“It is the curse: each progress in the world produces some new suffering.”
― Anjan Sundaram, Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo