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“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 refugees - far more, in fact, than we Americans have, even though our population is vastly larger.”

Quote by Adam Hochschild

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Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild is an American author renowned for his historical works. His writing often focuses on social justice and human suffering, particularly historical events of the 19th and 20th centuries. His style is well-received by readers for its in-depth research and vivid storytelling. more

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“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.”

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“It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.”

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

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“Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?”

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

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“If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are, it's tempting to want to blame it all on an easily identifiable target: Muslims, immigrants, refugees, blacks, Jews.”

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“How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.”

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