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Howard Zinn war ein einflussreicher US-amerikanischer Historiker, Politikwissenschaftler und Professor an der Boston University.

Den Schwerpunkt seiner Geschichtsforschung bildeten die Bürgerrechts- und Friedensbewegungen. Als Praktiker der Geschichte von unten bot Zinn eine Revision der amerikanischen Geschichtsschreibung. Sein Buch A People’s History of the United States, das in einer Auflage von mehr als einer Million erschienen ist, versucht die amerikanische Geschichte jeweils aus der Perspektive von sonst in der Geschichtsschreibung üblicherweise wenig beachteten Gruppen, darunter auch machtlosen „Opfern“, darzulegen.

Zinn war auch ein entschiedener Kritiker der Außenpolitik der Vereinigten Staaten. Er war in der Bürgerrechtsbewegung und Friedensbewegung aktiv und wurde neben Noam Chomsky zu einer der bekanntesten Figuren der amerikanischen Linken. Zinn schreibt: „Der Ausdruck ‚gerechter Krieg‘ ist in sich widersprüchlich. Krieg ist an sich ungerecht, und die große Herausforderung unserer Zeit ist, mit dem Bösen, der Tyrannei und der Unterdrückung zurechtzukommen, ohne eine große Anzahl von Menschen zu töten.“ Wikipedia  

✵ 24. August 1922 – 27. Januar 2010   •   Andere Namen ஓவர்ட் சின்
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“Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.”

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" Artists of Resistance http://books.google.ca/books?id=qMYNNGiHQ0kC&pg=PT52&lpg=PT52#v=onepage&q&f=false", July 2001

“It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.”

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Ch. 6 http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnint6.html
A People's History of the United States (1980)

“Behind the rebel battle yells and the legendary spirit of the Confederate army, there was much reluctance to fight. A sympathetic historian of the South, E. Merton Coulter, asked "Why did the Confederacy fail? The forces leading to the defeat were many but they may be summed up in this one fact"The People did not will hard enough and long enough to win."Not money or soldiers, but willpower and morale were decisive.”

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Quelle: A People's History of the United States (1980), Ch.10, "The Other Civil War"

“David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event.”

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Comment on David Ray Griffin's book The New Pearl Harbor, quoted at 911Truth.org (13 August 2004) http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20040525224251221

“I don't believe it's possible to be neutral. The world is already moving in certain directions, and to be neutral, to be passive in a situation like that, is to collaborate with whatever is going on. And I, as a teacher, do not want to be a collaborator with whatever is happening in the world. I want myself, as a teacher, and I want you, as students, to intercede with whatever is happening in the world.”

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Howard Zinn: You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004) documentary film

“Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide.”

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Howard Zinn on War (2000), Ch. 21: Just and Unjust War

“It is a race in which we can all choose to participate, or just to watch. But we should know that our choice will help determine the outcome.”

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A People's History of the United States (1980), Chapter 24. The Coming Revolt of the Guards

“That will happen... when all of us who are slightly privileged and slightly uneasy begin to see that we are like the guards in the prison uprising at Attica - expendable; that the Establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain its control, kill us.”

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A People's History of the United States (1980), Chapter 24. The Coming Revolt of the Guards

“It is the great challenge of our time: How to achieve justice, with struggle, but without war.”

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Declarations of Independence: Cross-examining American Ideology (HarperCollins, 1990), Ch. 5, p. 105

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