I’m after a snake and please God I’ll scotch it.
ADAM HOCHSCHILDAnd tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
More Adam Hochschild Quotes
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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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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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Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
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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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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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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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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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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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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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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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Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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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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