Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves themselves, and… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Aldrich, a multimillionaire, a card-playing partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The very people who are most ardent against entangling alliances insist most fanatically upon our doing one hundred things a year on humanitarian grounds. . . .” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were shot, or—to economize on bullets—bayoneted or… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“We run the risk of someday seeing our native population collapse and disappear,” fretfully declared the permanent committee of the National Colonial Congress of… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
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