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Howard Zinn is a historian best known and respected in the world today, and unusual for a scholar who has made history so far written about it. Despite wearing a career in the worst of human nature, the attention, he remains optimistic future decided.
"In this awful world where the efforts of involved often pale in comparison to what is done by those in power, how I managed to continue to participate and seem happy? [1]
Anyone who studies the past to live rarely optimistic about the future, but Howard Zinn is a historian who is not typical. Author of best-seller "A People's History of the United States, "is one the few historians whose work has appeared in the prime time drama (The Sopranos) and the hit movie (Good Will Hunting – Matt Damon has lived next door to Zinn as a child), and exceptionally from a permanent academic history, and has written books on the subject.
In its first teaching position as professor of history at Spelman College in Atlanta, the mentor of young civil rights activists Zinn and Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker (The Color Purple) and Marian Wright Edelman (Children's Defense Fund founder), and joined their students as an active participant in the struggle to end segregation racial, a very public position that has finally seen the light.
A World War II Bombardier participated in April 1945 bombing of Royan, France – a of the first uses of napalm on, unfortunately the death of French civilians and German soldiers waiting extradition – his war experiences at the time aware of the dilemmas ethics of modern warfare, and later became an advocate for the voice of nonviolent resistance, and a fervent opponent of the war in Vietnam.
In 1968, professor at Boston University, won the release of prisoners of war Americans in North Vietnam for a diplomatic conference in relation to Visit Rev. Daniel Berrigan, and as an expert witness for the defense in the Pentagon Papers trial contributed to the possible dismissal of the case. Then released and annotated copy to the public.
Zinn continues to be an opponent of the war of the vote to date, and suggests that the war will not end the policy, but when the great mass of people who refuse to participate, citing the wives of Confederate soldiers during the Civil War history, which caused a riot during the war profiteers and the death of their husbands.
He has received numerous awards including the Thomas Merton Award, the Lannan Literary Award, the Upton Sinclair Award and the Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique and the author of three parts, most recently, the historical basis "Marx in Soho", has been made continuously since 1999.
Having studied and written about the worst in humanity, and saw first hand, Howard Zinn, remains optimistic, he said, adding that never change has been achieved by groups of individuals who dared to think and work better. As a poet, Sri Chinmoy says the difference between optimism and pessimism: an optimist see the sun behind the clouds are black; A pessimist sees bright as the noon to midnight "[2] Zinn encourages us to remain optimistic, each one doing what we can to hasten the arrival of a better future is not yet visible
"An optimist is not necessarily a gay one Whistler little sap in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a story not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. [3]
References
1. Howard Zinn optimism Magazine of uncertainty, Arizona, November 2004
2. Sri Chinmoy, Arise! Wake up! Reflections of a Yogi, 1972
3. The optimism of uncertainty
John Gillespie is a designer, web developer and video editor who lives in Auckland, New Zealand. A member of the Sri Chinmoy Centre, he uses his practice of meditation as a source of energy and inspiration for his many creative activities. He also contributes to a site about the writings of Sri Chinmoy. http://www.yogaofsrichinmoy.com/
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