Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDDitto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today’s wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium
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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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