Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
ADAM HOCHSCHILDGrowing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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 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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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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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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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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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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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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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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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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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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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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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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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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