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

Adam Hochschild

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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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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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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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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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.
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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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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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