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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.

Adam Hochschild

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Because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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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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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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.
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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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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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Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don’t think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries – the United States, Poland, Hungary, and many others
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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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