Words for American historian Howard Zinn

[Shepherd]

I just came across the following words from Howard Zinn. He is considered by many to be the greatest American historian of the 20th century. He wrote "The People's History of the U.S." and died a couple of years ago. As we head into an unpredictable future for our country and the world, here at the end of 2012, I find the following words of his instructive. In my opinion, the best definition of the word "radical," which he uses, is "return to the root."

"Living in fear of living free, is not living"

*"From that moment on, I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the
self-correcting character of American democracy. I was a radical, believing
that something fundamental was wrong in this country - not just the
existence of poverty amidst great wealth, not just the horrible treatment of
black people, but something rotten at the root. The situation required not
just a new president or new laws, but an uprooting of the old order, the
introduction of a new kind of society - cooperative, peaceful, egalitarian."
*
Howard Zinn, from his 1994 memoir, "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train"