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 HOCHSCHILDA pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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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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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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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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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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