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Quotes from King Leopold's Ghost — Adam Hochschild

born 1942 United States

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It is always tempting to believe that a bad system is the fault of one bad man.

King Leopold's Ghost (1998)

From the colonial era, the major legacy Europe left to Africa was not democracy as it is practiced today in countries like England, France, and Belgium; it was authoritarian rule and plunder.

King Leopold's Ghost (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adam Hochschild (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.