Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
ADAM HOCHSCHILDI’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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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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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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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After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II?
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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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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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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 yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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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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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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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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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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You can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.
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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 one thing writers can do is point out that you don’t have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe.
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