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Howard Zinn
Author profile
born
in Brooklyn, New York, New York, The United States
August 24, 1922
died
January 27, 2010
gender
male
website
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
— published 1980 — 57 editions |
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
— published 1994 — 6 editions |
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A People's History of American Empire
by Howard Zinn, Paul Buhle, Mike Konopacki — published 2008 — 5 editions |
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The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
— published 1997 — 6 editions |
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove — published 2004 — 6 editions |
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The Twentieth Century: A People's History
— published 1984 — 9 editions |
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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
— published 2006 — 3 editions |
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Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
— published 1990 — 2 editions |
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Terrorism and War
by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove — published 2002 — 3 editions |
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Artists in Times of War and Other Essays
— published 2000 — 9 editions |
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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
― Howard Zinn
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
― Howard Zinn
“I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.”
― Howard Zinn
― Howard Zinn
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