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
ADAM HOCHSCHILDFive years ago, who would have thought this possible?
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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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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And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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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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