On the one year anniversary of the death of People’s Historian and Progressive Champion Howard Zinn
“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.”
From You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, the autobiography of Howard Zinn
Born: August 24, 1922
Died: January 27, 2010
The Green Party of Colorado officers urge Greens to become more hopeful and active, and others to join in our efforts to create a more sane, peaceful, safe, healthy world. Find information about party contacts and events and local chapter contacts and events on this site.
Thinking of Howard Zinn, and wondering how many of you Colorado Greens have read a book Zinn called “one of the most important I have read” – The Shock Doctrine – The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein. It is depressing beyond measure but it contains information critical to understanding what is happening in our world that is not readily available anywhere else.