Quotes About Adam Hochschild

At the time of the Congo controversy a hundred years ago, the idea of full human rights, political, social, and economic, was a profound threat to the established order of most countries on earth. It still is today.

I do not agree with you that England and America are the two great humanitarian powers. . . . [They are] materialistic first and humanitarian only a century after.

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.

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

about 80 percent of the entire land area of Africa was still under indigenous rulers.

By the conflict's end, more than 20,000 British men of military age had refused the draft.

The new gun, Stanley said, would be "of valuable service in helping civilisation to overcome barbarism." When