Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDNewt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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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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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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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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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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you can be forced to pay with your life, or your freedom, in many other parts of the world, from Iran to Russia to Pakistan to China.
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