Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
Howard Zinn
Language: English
Pages: 368
ISBN: 0060557672
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From the bestselling author of A People's History of the United States comes this selection of passionate, honest, and piercing essays looking at American political ideology.
Howard Zinn brings to Passionate Declarations the same astrin
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Started his own newspaper, North Star. A conference of blacks in 1854 declared “it is emphatically our battle; no one else can fight it for us.” The Underground Railroad brought tens of thousands of slaves to freedom in the United States and Canada. Harriet Tubman, born into slavery, had escaped alone as a young woman. She then made nineteen dangerous trips back into the South, bringing over 300 slaves to freedom. She carried a pistol and told the fugitives, “You’ll be free or die.” When the.
It was a dangerous thing for a black person to do in Dallas County, and so a mass meeting was held the evening before in a black church, with speeches designed to build people’s courage for the next day. Novelist James Baldwin came and so did comedian Dick Gregory, who tried to diminish fear with laughter. And there were the thrilling voices of the Selma Freedom Singers. The next day, black men and women, elderly people, and mothers carrying babies lined up in front of the county courthouse.
Published in 1981.64 The deception and self-deception that accompanied these atrocities was remarkable. Truman told the public, “The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.”65 Even the possibility that American prisoners of war would be killed in these bombings did not have any effect on the plans. On July 31, nine days before Nagasaki was.
The movement against the Vietnam War reveals the double standard of government, treating the burning of pieces of paper (draft cards and draft records) as violent acts, while dropping 7 million tons of bombs on Southeast Asia (twice as many as were dropped in all theaters of operation in World War II). It was a remarkably nonviolent movement. There was one instance, so rare that it must be noted, where antiwar protesters in Madison, Wisconsin, planted a bomb in a military research building,.
Best use of those laws is legitimate and government has no right to tax that to pay for Medicare. If legitimate means moral, we could argue that none of the great fortunes came about morally, certainly not without the exploitation of labor. Then, using Nozick’s principle, the way would be wide open, to distribute those fortunes in whatever way they would be useful to people in need.34 If we traced the holdings of the rich back in history (Rockefeller, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Mellon, Astor,.