Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
ADAM HOCHSCHILDZachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.
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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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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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