King Leopold II (voiced by Mark Twain)
Appearances
The Rest Is History
540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3)
these meddlesome american missionaries these frank british consuls these blabbing belgian born traitor officials those tiresome parrots are always talking
The Rest Is History
540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3)
they have told how for twenty years i have ruled the congo state seizing and holding the state as my personal property the whole of its vast revenues as my private swag mine solely mine claiming and holding its millions of people as my private property
The Rest Is History
540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3)
my serfs my slaves the robber the ivory and all the other riches of the land mine mine solely and gathered for me by the men the women and the little children under compulsion of lash and bullet fire starvation mutilation and the altar these pests They have kept nothing back.
The Rest Is History
540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3)
They have revealed these and yet other details which shame should have kept them silent about, since they were exposures of a king, a sacred personage, and immune from reproach, by right of his appointment to his great office by God himself.