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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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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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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.
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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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