"If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when, even if in brief flashes, people showed their ability to resist, to join together, occasionally to win. I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive movements of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare."
-howard zinn
this book should be required reading
in history classes around the states
today we celebrate an independence we do not understand
i'm thankful
i swear
for my tiny liberites
although we could benefit from being more thoughtful
a little more gentle
maybe sharing a thing or two
freedom is the golden rule
perhaps...
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