Helene Cooper > Quotes

“They walked, some of them for miles, from rural villages deep in the bush. They came in wheelbarrows, in wheelchairs. They came with babies on their back. They came the night before, some of them sleeping on the hard ground outside the polling booths so they could vote when morning came. The”
― Helene Cooper, Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“They are spoken of as orderly and decent people; many of them, except for the color of their skins, would have been valued members of society in the United States.” —Niles Weekly Register, February 7, 1829, Norfolk, Virginia”
― Helene Cooper, The House at Sugar Beach

“The family sought solace at an aunt’s house, and Grace-tee’s forty-eight-year-old mother went out to forage for food. She was quickly accosted by Johnson’s soldiers, ran from them, and in running, terrified, she had a heart attack. Eventually someone brought her home, and Grace-tee and her father took her to Redemption Hospital, but there were no beds. Soon she died.”
― Helene Cooper, Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf