To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDSomeday, 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
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony.
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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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Compared with how we’ve ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of refugees – far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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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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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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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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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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