We listen with the languor of a people who have never been bombed, who have only been the bombardiers….We have no Hiroshima, no city of the blind and maimed, no professors haggard from long terms in jail…we have never been forced…to recognize our deeds, to bow, to apologize, to promise a life of peace. We have, in other words, never been caught.
We listen with the languor of a people who have never been bombed, who have only been the bombardiers…
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn was born in 1922 and died 2010. He was a historian and a playwright. He taught at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, then at Boston University. He was active in the civil rights movement, and in the movement against the Vietnam war. He has written many books, his best known being A People`s History of the United States. His many books include You Can`t Be Neutral on a Moving Train (a memoir), The Zinn Reader, The Future of History (interviews with David Barsamian) and Marx in Soho (a play), among many others.