Adam Hochschild

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

— Adam Hochschild

“The very people who are most ardent against entangling alliances insist most fanatically upon our doing one hundred things a year on…

— Adam Hochschild

Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.

— Adam Hochschild

“Just as terrorizing people is part of conquest, so is forcing someone else to administer the terror.*”

— Adam Hochschild

“To the Africans throughout the Congo conscripted to work on these and other new enterprises, the Great Depression, paradoxically, brought lifesaving relief.”

— Adam Hochschild

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at peace.

— Adam Hochschild

“Its monarch, the ManiKongo, was chosen by an assembly of clan leaders. Like his European counterparts, he”

— Adam Hochschild

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger,…

— Adam Hochschild

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory,…

— Adam Hochschild

“it is easy to see how Stanley’s painful poorhouse childhood may have fostered his cruel streak and the drive to place his…

— Adam Hochschild

“One traveler to the Congo came on a deserted town where a fifteen-foot boa constrictor was dining on smallpox victims’ flesh, and…

— Adam Hochschild

“he wrote a trenchant warning of the “far-reaching consequences over the wider destiny, not only of South Africa, but of all Negro…

— Adam Hochschild

In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you…

— Adam Hochschild

I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political…

— Adam Hochschild

“When another American, Francis Ford Coppola, tried to put the blood lust of that war on film, where did he turn for…

— Adam Hochschild

All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced -…

— Adam Hochschild

Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain -…

— Adam Hochschild

If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are,…

— Adam Hochschild

“The standard of emancipation is now unfurled . . . I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single…

— Adam Hochschild

And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of…

— Adam Hochschild

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

“Michael Herr, the most brilliant reporter of the Vietnam War, captures the same frenzy in the voice of one American soldier he…

— Adam Hochschild

The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on…

— Adam Hochschild

“he believed with all his heart that Leopold’s system of rule constituted a unique form of evil. People in England’s ruling circles,…

— Adam Hochschild

“Colonialism was also justified by an elaborate ideology, embodied in everything from Kipling’s poetry and Stanley’s lectures to sermons and books about…

— Adam Hochschild

“Power is tempting, and in a sense no power is greater than the ability to take someone’s life. Once under way, mass…

— Adam Hochschild

“the optimism, the boundless confidence of a society that had not yet seen or imagined the world wars, the belief that humankind…

— Adam Hochschild

For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority…

— Adam Hochschild

“We run the risk of someday seeing our native population collapse and disappear,” fretfully declared the permanent committee of the National Colonial…

— Adam Hochschild

“During and after the war, though, no one in the Allied countries wanted to be reminded that, only a decade or two…

— Adam Hochschild

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy…

— Adam Hochschild

“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the…

— Adam Hochschild

“In Berlin, there are no museums or monuments to the slaughtered Hereros, and in Paris and Lisbon no visible reminders of the…

— Adam Hochschild

“Earp forced Kowalsky into a back room, pulled out a revolver, and told the lawyer to get ready to meet his maker.…

— Adam Hochschild