I’ll join the chorus of radicals who are taking a moment to acknowledge the death of Howard Zinn yesterday. Zinn lived a long, amazing, committed and principled life. His words and work have pulled me out of many activist funks. Zinn was simply inspiring by, as Thoreau counseled, using “his life as a counter friction to stop the machine.”
“If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists, which is what war is.”
— Howard Zinn
From the Boston Globe obituary:
On his last day at Boston University, Dr. Zinn ended class 30 minutes early so he could join a picket line and urged the 500 students attending his lecture to come along. A hundred did so.
Rest in Peace, Howard. You earned it.
And J.D. Salinger too.
You should call Deb Markowitz and see what she thinks….