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Howard Zinn1922–2010

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past’s fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

Howard Zinn on hope

A People’s History of the United States (1980; 2003), Ch. 1

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