Spain in Our Hearts Quotes

“Men of my generation,” wrote the French novelist Albert Camus, “have had Spain in our hearts. . . . It was there that they learned . . . that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, and that there are times when courage is not rewarded.”
― Adam Hochschild, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

“The city of Detroit slaughtered the animals in its zoo to provide meat for the hungry.”
― Adam Hochschild, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

“Whenever Mosley was heckled at one of his rallies, he stopped speaking and searchlights focused on the heckler as jackbooted men beat him and then threw him out of the hall.”
― Adam Hochschild, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

“In June 1940, immediately after France surrendered to the invading Nazis, Rieber and Westrick took part in a celebratory dinner in a private room at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where executives of Ford, General Motors, Eastman Kodak, and other companies talked about the prospects for American cooperation with the Nazi regime that seemed certain to dominate Europe for the foreseeable future. Germany would be a good credit risk for American loans, Westrick said, and there should definitely be no more of this nonsense of selling US arms to the British.”
― Adam Hochschild, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

“Catalan metalworkers quickly fashioned armored cars that looked like giant boxes on wheels by welding steel plates to the frames of trucks and automobiles. Others fashioned homemade bombs and hand grenades, and thousands pitched in to build street barricades of everything from dead horses to massive rolls of newsprint to paving stones passed hand-to-hand along a chain of people. Office”
― Adam Hochschild, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

“Anarchists were opposed to bureaucracy of any kind, and their rallying cry was “Too many committees!”
― Adam Hochschild, Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939