black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.

Adam Hochschild

Related Topics

Ability Count Country Example Injustice Late Paper Wonderful

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Blame Comunity Easily Identifiable Immigrant People Refugee Target Tempting Want
If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Blame Children Declining Fera Identifiable Job Real Risk Target Tempting Wages Worse
A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Book Crisis Genre Great Man Pioneer Refugee Seventh Writing
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
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Close Country Day Determination Fierce Modern Slave Two Year
I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Crisis Faced Looking Problem Refugee Respond Thinking Writing
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Century Fight First Many Out Really Remade Shaped Twenty War Way World Worse
Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Act Ally Opening Power Second Sympathetic Wanted War World
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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Openly Point Racist Saying Thing Thinking Trump Writer
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Chance Historian Misses Missing Note Seldom
You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Appeal Element Fascism Playback Politician Power Tactic Taking Vying
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.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Appear Certainty Differences Moment Onwell Political Thinking Want
I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Airplane Attack Battle Civil Country Language Many Military Second War Way World
All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Arguably Country Crisis Enormous Facing Greatest Humanity Living Man Today
Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Bargaining Border Brothels Crossing Dealer Everywhere Human Being Session Skinner
To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Account Bring Globe Human Network Searing Servitude Span Today Trafficking Vivid Wide
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Ability Count Country Example Injustice Late Paper Wonderful

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes