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  1. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    It seemed a fitting way to end my teaching career. I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other.
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  2. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    But I was open to anything my students wanted to do, refusing to accept the idea that a teacher should confine his teaching to the classroom when so much was at stake outside it.
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  3. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    I'll never forget that day." It confirmed what I learned from my Spelman years, that education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.}
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  4. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    I'll never forget that day." It confirmed what I learned from my Spelman years, that education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the
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  5. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    {Twenty five years later the sheriff was gone, but Sherrod was still in Albany, organizing farming cooperatives.}
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  6. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy. Certainly this was the experience of African-Americans in this country for two hundred years. With the government failing to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, black men, women, and children decided to do that on their own.
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  7. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    No doubt the odds are against dissenters in any nation's judicial system. But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.
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  8. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    In late April of 1971, several thousand antiwar veterans converged on Washington, to camp out, to lobby. As one of them said, "It's the first time in this country's history that the men who fought a war have come to Washington to demand its halt while the war is still going on." In the final event of the veterans' Washington encampment, a thousand of them, many in wheelchairs or on crutches, tossed their medals over a fence that the police had built around the Capitol steps to keep them away. As they did so, one by one, they made personal statements. One of them said, "I'm not proud of these medals. I'm not proud of what I did to receive them. I was in Vietnam for a year and … we never took one prisoner alive." An Air Force man said that what he had done was a disservice to his country. "As far as I'm concerned, I'm now serving my country.
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  9. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    Columbus was one of the great heroes of world history, to be admired for his daring feat of imagination and courage. In my account, I acknowledged that he was an intrepid sailor, but also pointed out {based on his own journal and the reports of many eyewitnesses} that he was vicious in his treatment of the gentle Arawak Indians who greeted his arrival in this hemisphere. He enslaved them, tortured them, murdered them-all in the pursuit of wealth. He represented, I suggested, the worst values of Western civilization: greed, violence, exploitation, racism, conquest, hypocrisy
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  10. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    Then Gregory lowered his voice, suddenly serious. "But it looks like we got to do it the hard way, and stay down here, and educate them.
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  11. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    My image of "a Communist" was not a Soviet bureaucrat but my friend Leon's father, a cabdriver who came home from work bruised and bloody one day, beaten up by his employer's goons {yes, that word was soon part of my vocabulary} for trying to organize his fellow cabdrivers into a union.
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  12. Howard Zinn _ You Can't Be Neutral on a

    Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy. Certainly this was the experience of African-Americans in this country for two hundred years. With the government failing to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, black men, women, and children decided to do that on their own. They organized, demonstrated, protested, challenged the law, were beaten, went to prison, some killed-and thereby reached the conscience of the nation and the world. And things changed.
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