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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

Adam Hochschild

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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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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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 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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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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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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