Henry Morton Stanley idézet

Sir Henry Morton Stanley walesi születésű amerikai újságíró és Afrika-kutató, akit az európai szemek elől eltűnt David Livingstone felfedező utáni kutatása tett híressé. Kongóban Bula Matari, azaz „a Sziklatörő” néven ismerik, születésekor a neve John Rowlands volt.

Szülei nem voltak házasok, és egy dologházban nőtt fel. 1859-ben, 18 éves korában az Amerikai Egyesült Államokba hajózott. New Orleansba érkezve barátkozott össze egy Stanley nevű gazdag kereskedővel, akinek a nevét később felvette. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. január 1841 – 10. május 1904
Henry Morton Stanley fénykép
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Henry Morton Stanley: Idézetek angolul

“Socialism is a return to primitive conditions.”

Henry Morton Stanley

Forrás: Quotes:, Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1909), p. 530

“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

Henry Morton Stanley

Henry Morton Stanley, spoken on October 27, 1871, in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. (Elsewhere said to have occurred on November 10, 1871)
There were no other white men known to be in the vicinity. As the two had not been formally introduced, it was a proper way to address Livingstone without committing a breach of etiquette.
Quotes:

“You can find it on almost any tree. As we made our way through the forest, it was literally raining rubber juice. Our clothes were full of it. The Congo has so many tributaries that a well-organized company can easily extract a few tons of rubber per year here. You only have to sail up such a river and the branches with rubber hang almost up to your ship.”

Henry Morton Stanley

Leopold II, Het hele Verhaal, Johan Op De Beeck Horizon, 2020 https://klara.be/leopold-ii-aflevering-8-0 ISBN 9789463962094 Stanley Points out to King Leopold II Of Belgium that the Congo free State which was a loss-making endeavor at that time that rubber extraction has a possibility to make the colony profitable.

“Only by proving that we are superior to the savages, not only through our power to kill them but through our entire way of life, can we control them as they are now, in their present stage; it is necessary for their own well-being, even more than ours.”

Henry Morton Stanley

Forrás: Leopold II, Het hele Verhaal, Johan Op De Beeck Horizon, 2020 https://klara.be/leopold-ii-aflevering-6 ISBN 9789463962094 Stanley writes this on his first expidition commissioned by King Leopold II of Belgium after describing with horror the horrible scenes of atrocities and cannibalism that take place in Congo.

“I crossed Africa from East to West and from West to East, and I never saw any excesses committed. I do not think that from this point of view there is a single sovereign living who has done so much for humanity as Leopold II.”

Henry Morton Stanley

Brief of Henry I. Kowalsky, of the New York bar, attorney and counsellor to Leopold II. https://archive.org/details/briefofhenryikow00kowa/page/28/mode/2up

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