"Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull."

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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.

— Adam Hochschild