Howard Zinn, R.I.P.

January 28, 2010

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.

Posted by M. Colby | Filed Under blog 

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2 Responses to “Howard Zinn, R.I.P.”

  1. Peter Buknatski on January 28th, 2010 4:19 pm

    And J.D. Salinger too.

  2. M. Colby on January 28th, 2010 4:24 pm

    You should call Deb Markowitz and see what she thinks….

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