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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips Zinn Wisdom clipped by: jjordansquire clippers remarks: Howard Zinn, who should have been at high risk for cynicism and disheartening given his view of history as we generally define it in America, instead chose hope and optimism as his baseline. I was a child during Vietnam and Watergate, and learned cynicism at the same time I learned to multiple two digit numbers and write complete sentences. Zinns view is a thought-provoking antidote to my baseline views. I think Im going to post it in my classroom. Clip Source: www.poetsagainstthewar.org ?To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacri?ce, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places?and there are so many?where people have behaved magni?cently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don?t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an in?nite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in de?ance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.? Tags: american voice, history, laura bush, poets against, sam hamill zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de