If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
How is it possible to live in world where people can rule millions of others? It's incredible! It's like we've gone back to the… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
“One day in May 1930, Celia took her twoyear- old son for a swim at the yacht club, but it was already the onset of the Argentine winter, cold and windy. That night, the little boy had a coughing fit. A doctor diagnosed him as suffering from asthmatic bronchitis and prescribed the normal remedies, but the attack lasted for several… — jon lee anderson Copy Share
That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
“with Ernestito riding on the front of his father’s saddle; and river excursions aboard the Kid, a wooden launch with a four-berth cabin that Ernesto had built at the Astillero San Isidro. Once, they traveled upriver to the famous Iguazú falls, where the Argentine and Brazilian borders meet, and watched the clouds of vapor rise from the brown cascades that… — jon lee anderson Copy Share
We live in an extraordinary time, in which one still has the ability to mold opinion. Also, it's up for grabs. Perceptions are up for grabs in a way that it hasn't been before, which makes it really interesting. Societies that have always defined other aspects of human experience, or histories, try to hold on to it and try to… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share
I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel and what… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country will be… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
It is important to know how influential people think and perceive their countrymen, let's say, especially when you are talking about people in power.… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Che is not just a potent figure of protest, but the idealistic, questioning kid who exists in every society and every time. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't think we would have had to be an occupying power if we had done the right thing in 1991. — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
