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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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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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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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 yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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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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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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