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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDI can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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