Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before or since who've ever jo…

- Adam Hochschild

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

- 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 and folly as those millions of men …

- 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 or t…

- Adam Hochschild

Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain - the Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane …

- Adam Hochschild

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

- Adam Hochschild

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

- Adam Hochschild

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

- 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 paper. Ditt…

- Adam Hochschild