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Howard Zinn Quotes about Compassion

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The future is an infinite succession of presents.

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

Howard Zinn
Future, Compassion, Infinite
Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

Howard Zinn
Past, Compassion, Supposing That
Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.12, City Lights Books

Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?

Howard Zinn
Peace, War, Compassion
"Dying for the Government" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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