I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDGrowing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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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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All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II.
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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