Aaron Mishler

“When these other mass murders went largely unnoticed except by their victims, why, in Britain and the United States, was there such a storm of righteous protest about the Congo? The politics of empathy are fickle.”
― Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

“White officers were shooting villagers, sometimes to capture their women, sometimes to intimidate the survivors into working as forced laborers, and sometimes for sport. “Two Belgian Army officers saw, from the deck of their steamer, a native in a canoe some distance away. . . . The officers made a wager of £5 that they could hit the native with their rifles. Three shots were fired and the native fell dead, pierced through the head.”
― Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

“Vandervelde replied, “No man is a stranger in a court of justice.”
― Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

“Conrad was a man of his time and place in other ways as well. He was partly a prisoner of what Mark Twain, in a different context, called “the white man’s notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”
― Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost