How we cite our quotes: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
For a long time I thought Mama was saying [the Jeune Mou-Pro] were the Jimmy Crow, a name I knew from home. (2.2.3)
Young Ruth May gets a lot of political issues mixed up, confusing the African communist group with America's assortment of racist laws. Could these two groups possibly be different, or do they have anything in common?
Quote #2
"We Belgians made slaves of them and cut off their hands in the rubber plantations. Now you Americans have them for a slave wage in the mines and let them cut off their own hands. And you, my friend, are stuck with the job of trying to make amends." (2.2.29)
This big plot dump says a lot about the politics going on behind the scenes. At this point in the narrative, the Price family doesn't know what's going on with the Congo's government, and if they did, they probably wouldn't care.
Quote #3
"American aid will be the Congo's salvation. You'll see!" (2.2.32)
American "aid" ends up being more like the Congo's damnation. Nathan, despite a world view so narrow you couldn't slide a sheet of paper through it sideways, might actually have his heart in the right place here. He thinks he really can help these people, whereas the American government just wants to take advantage of them. Slavery isn't slavery if it's happening in another country, right??