Howard Zinn Quote
In the mid-thirties, a young black poet named Langston Hughes wrote a poem, Let America Be America Again:. . . I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek-And finding only the same old stupid plan.Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak. . . . O, let America be America again-The land that never has been yet-And yet must be-the land where every man is free.The land that's mine-the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's ME-Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring back our mighty dream again.Sure call me any ugly name you choose-The steel of freedom does not stain.From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,We must take back our land again,America! . . .
In the mid-thirties, a young black poet named Langston Hughes wrote a poem, Let America Be America Again:. . . I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek-And finding only the same old stupid plan.Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak. . . . O, let America be America again-The land that never has been yet-And yet must be-the land where every man is free.The land that's mine-the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's ME-Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring back our mighty dream again.Sure call me any ugly name you choose-The steel of freedom does not stain.From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,We must take back our land again,America! . . .
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About Howard Zinn
Zinn described himself as "something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist." He wrote extensively about the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement and labor history of the United States. His memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (Beacon Press, 1994), was also the title of a 2004 documentary about Zinn's life and work. Zinn died of a heart attack in 2010, at age 87.