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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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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
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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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