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The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

Howard Zinn
Giving, Rewards, Establishment

I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don't need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.

Howard Zinn
Believe, Giving, Historical
Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.709, Seven Stories Press

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.

Howard Zinn
Future, People, Giving
Howard Zinn (2006). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.270, City Lights Publishers

The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side might) is to give one moral superiority over the other, and thus serve to perpetuate the horrors of our time.

Howard Zinn
Suicide, Giving, Bombers
"Letters: On Terror", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 2007.

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