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“Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

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“You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” I would tell them. Some were baffled by the metaphor, especially if they took it literally and tried to dissect its meaning. Others immediately saw what I meant: that events are already moving in certain deadly directions, and to be neutral means to accept that.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

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“The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

tags: defiance, future, hope, now, the-present, victory

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“If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.”
― Alaa Al Aswany, The Yacoubian Building

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“I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

tags: action, education, educational-enrichment, educational-inequity, knowledge-acquisition, learning

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