“The foreign correspondent is frequently the only means of getting an important story told, or of drawing the world's attention to disasters in the making or being covered up. Such an important role is risky in more ways than one. It can expose the correspondent to actual physical danger; but there is also the moral danger of indulging in sensationalism and dehumanizing the sufferer. This danger immediately raises the question of the character and attitude of the correspondent, because the same qualities of mind which in the past separated a Conrad from a Livingstone, or a Gainsborough from the anonymous painter of Francis Williams, are still present and active in the world today. Perhaps this difference can best be put in one phrase: the presence or absence of respect for the human person.”
― The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
― The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
“Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.”
― Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays
― Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays
“Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.”
― There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
― There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
“Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.”
― Anthills of the Savannah
― Anthills of the Savannah
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
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