#Howard zinn

[questionableadvice]

“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

[liberalsarecool]

I live in defiance of all the bad that is around me.

[poligraf]

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.

— Howard Zinn

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“children live here”... “people”... “people here”... “children”... “people and children”...

Inscriptions on the walls and fence gates of Ukrainian houses, mostly houses that are now destroyed.

[Edward Smith]

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“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” ― Howard Zinn

[fuckyeahanarchistposters]

",There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people"

Howard Zinn

[entheognosis]

[victusinveritas]

[chantssecrets]

James Baldwin with Howard Zinn

[nando161mando]

Disobedience saves lives

[kamala-laxman]

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” Howard Zinn

[the-cosmic-bookshelf]

Our little reader Sophie!

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[tommyandtabitha]

[quotesfrommyreading]

I don't want to invent victories for people's movements. But to think that history-writing must aim simply to recapitulate the failures that dominate the past is to make historians collaborators in an endless cycle of defeat. If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, occasionally to win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than its solid centuries of warfare.

  —  A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)

[davidhudson]

Howard Zinn, August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010.

1968 photo by Peter Simon.

[putah-creek]

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. -- HOWARD ZINN, A People's History of the United States