Quotes about Howard Zinn

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Unfortunately, too many academics retreat into narrow specialisms, allow themselves to become adjuncts of the corporation, or align themselves with dominant interests that serve largely to consolidate authority rather than to critique its abuses. Refusing to take positions on controversial issues or to examine the role they might play in lessening human suffering, such academics become models of moral indifference and examples of what it means to disconnect learning from public life. This is a form of education, as Howard Zinn notes, where scholars publish while others perish. Even many leftist and liberal academics have retreated into arcane discourses that offer them the safe ground of the professional recluse.

As the late Howard Zinn once said, "There is not a flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

Chelsea Manning

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.