Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDNewt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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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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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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 think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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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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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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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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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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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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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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