To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDNo international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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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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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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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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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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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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I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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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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