Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than twenty books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People′s History of the United States.
Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist." He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States. His memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, was also the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work. Zinn died of a heart attack in 2010, aged 87.
Life and career
Early life
Zinn was born to a Jewish immigrant family in Brooklyn on August 24, 1922. His father, Eddie Zinn, born in Austria-Hungary, emigrated to the U.S. with his brother Samuel before the outbreak of World War I. Howard's mother, Jenny (Rabinowitz) Zinn, emigrated from the Eastern Siberian city of Irkutsk.
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Famous quotes by Howard Zinn:
"If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates"
"We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children"
"(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands"
"I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers."
"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
"Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane."
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."
"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves."
"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli."
"One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression."
Howard Zinn
ALBUMS
- War and Civil Disobedience released: 2010
- A People's History of the United States: Highlights From the Twentieth Century released: 2003
- Artists in a Time of War released: 2002
- Stories Hollywood Never Tells released: 2001
- DiY-FEST Compilation, Volume 1 released: 2001
- A People's History of the United States: A Lecture at Reed College released: 2001
- The Ecstasy of the Agony released: 2000
- Rolling Stone: New Voices, Volume 35 released: 2000
- All Things Censored, Volume 1 released: 1998
- Monkeywrenching the New World Order released:
- Heroes and Martyrs released:
Artists in a Time of War
Released 2002- The Artist and Society
- The Historian and Society
- Artists and Experts
- Standing in Line
- Mark Twain on War
- Patriotism and Loyalty
- Artists and the Great War
- Eugene O'Neill and the Good War
- Langston Hughes, the US, and Imperialism
- Catch 22
- Speaking Out
- Opposing War, Transcending Terror
- The Patriotic Thing to Do
DiY-FEST Compilation, Volume 1
Released 2001- Alleged GW Bush "Missing Press Conference"
- Alleged Accused Reputed Reused
- (live at the Solidarity Conference)
- The Life
- 43% Burnt (remix)
- (live at the Solidarity Conference)
- Child Autonomous
- White Collar Crime Fight Song
- A Less Important Place (live acoustic)
- Digital Skinhead
- You Suck
- Iris
- Fuel
- Ghetto Birds (remix)
- Fellow Candymakers
- No More Prisons
- The Show Must Go On
- One Fight
- Kill Cupid With a Nailfile
- (live at the Solidarity Conference)
- Street Beat Lotto Spaz
- Threat: The DiY Movie (clip)
- Bells I (Sci-Fi mix)
- Orgasm
A People's History of the United States: A Lecture at Reed College
Released 2001- Machiavelli and Teaching
- Professionalism and Morality
- Mumia Abu-Jamal
- The History Profession
- Objectivity
- Making Choices
- History Standards
- The Best and the Brightest
- The Mexican War
- The Conquest of the Philippines
- Having a Point of View
- The Same Old Story
- Un-American Activities
- Class Consciousness
- Emile Zola's 'Germinal'
- Class Struggle
- The American Revolution
- The Founding Fathers
The Ecstasy of the Agony
Released 2000- Geological Lust
- Eat That Cake
- Excerpt From "A Hard Choice"
- I'm O
- Largactyl
- Prisons vs. Preschools
- Hello / Goodbye
- Jackson
- Caos
- Excerpt From "Making a Difference"
- Police Force 06/16/00
- Termites Ate My House Up
- Un-United Kingdom (live)
- Her Song
- Sidewalk Begging
- Questions, Questions, Questions?
- New Feudalism
- I'm Being Followed Around by the CIA
- Premature Enlistment
- Temptation
- Demons
- Excerpt From "The Green Wedge"
- Race Riot
- Ballad of Marshall Ledbetter
- Overkill
- Excerpt From "Corporate Welfare"
- Kiyomoto
- Ez Jesus
- Baraboo
- Modranicht
All Things Censored, Volume 1
Released 1998- [untitled]
- Dedication
- From Death Row
- War on the Poor
- [untitled]
- Media Is the Mirage
- [untitled]
- True African American History
- Sister Helen Prejean
- When Ineffective Means Effective
- [untitled]
- Death: The Poor's Prerogative?
- [untitled]
- A Rap Thing
- [untitled]
- Mother Loss
- [untitled]
- Acting Like Life's a Ballgame
- [untitled]
- May 13 Remembered, Part II
- [untitled]
- Seeds of Wisdom
- [untitled]
- NAFTA: A Pact Made in Hell
- [untitled]
- De Profundis
- Justice Bruce Wright
- No Law, No Rights
- [untitled]
- Sweet Roxanne
- [untitled]
- Blackmun Bows Out of Death Game
- [untitled]
- It's Not Nice to Fool With Mother Nature
- [untitled]
- South Africa
Born: 1922-08-24
Died: 2010-01-27
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