Adam Hochschild

“of white men they are branded with a red-hot”

— Adam Hochschild

“one-eyed people who used their feet to cover their heads. A”

— Adam Hochschild

“we live in a world of corpses, and only about some of them is there a hue and cry. True,”

— Adam Hochschild

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

— Adam Hochschild

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

— Adam Hochschild

I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.

— Adam Hochschild

“each of the two great archrivals, Booker T. Washington and WE.B. Du Bois, invited”

— Adam Hochschild

“The years after the war saw the growth of copper, gold, and tin mining. As always, the profits flowed out of the…

— Adam Hochschild

I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don't have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump,…

— Adam Hochschild

“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.”

— Adam Hochschild

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to…

— Adam Hochschild

“International intervention in the country is like asking security guards to patrol a bank in mid-robbery. The guards may end up robbing…

— Adam Hochschild

“There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He”

— Adam Hochschild

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

— Adam Hochschild

“Unlike, say, witch-burning, slavery, and apartheid, which were once taken for granted and are now officially outlawed, war is still with us.”

— Adam Hochschild

“Those who are conquered," wrote the philosopher Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth century, "always want to imitate the conqueror in his main…

— Adam Hochschild

“Dr. Sheppard has not only stood before kings, but he has also stood against them. In pursuit of his mission of serving…

— Adam Hochschild

“two white men were put on trial for a particularly gruesome set of murders in the French Congo; to celebrate Bastille Day,…

— Adam Hochschild

“For even a century’s worth of bloodshed after the war that was supposed to end all wars, we are painfully far from…

— Adam Hochschild

“Sorry, but they’re burning the State archives.” The furnaces burned for eight days, turning most of the Congo state records to ash…

— Adam Hochschild

“Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country’s history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves,…

— Adam Hochschild

Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss…

— Adam Hochschild

Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don't think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries - the United…

— Adam Hochschild

“A parade of witnesses offered horrifying testimony. One of the most impressive was Chief Lontulu of Bolima, who had been flogged with…

— Adam Hochschild

“For every boy here," he says, "I like to imagine that we're helping him go in a particular direction, a direction he…

— Adam Hochschild

“a 1959 text for young Congolese soldiers studying to become NCOs in the Force Publique explained that history “reveals how the Belgians,…

— Adam Hochschild

“as in Leopold’s colony, both the French territories and the German Cameroons were wracked by long, fierce rebellions against the rubber regime.…

— Adam Hochschild

“In June 1940, immediately after France surrendered to the invading Nazis, Rieber and Westrick took part in a celebratory dinner in a…

— Adam Hochschild

“On another point: King Leopold’s Ghost reproduces some of the photographs of Congo atrocities that fueled the worldwide protests against Leopold’s rule…

— Adam Hochschild

“The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves…

— Adam Hochschild

“To get at parts of the vine high off the ground, men frantic to get every possible drop of rubber would sometimes…

— Adam Hochschild

“Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all,…

— Adam Hochschild

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

“He also knew that journalists dread having to digest a long official report when writing against a tight deadline—all the more so…

— Adam Hochschild

“An ancient English law made it a crime to witness a murder or discover a corpse and not raise a “hue and…

— Adam Hochschild

“Dissident state or company employees in the Congo could not easily write to Morel directly, for a cabinet noir, or censorship office,…

— Adam Hochschild

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has…

— Adam Hochschild

“I do not agree with you that England and America are the two great humanitarian powers. . . . [They are] materialistic first and humanitarian…

— Adam Hochschild

“Filled with self-pity and calling himself “a man who had given up his life for his country and for Africa,” he”

— Adam Hochschild

“He and his supporters never doubted that if only Britain were to act, it could force Leopold to mend his ways or…

— Adam Hochschild