Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
Howard Zinn
Language: English
Pages: 368
ISBN: 0060557672
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From the bestselling author of A People's History of the United States comes this selection of passionate, honest, and piercing essays looking at American political ideology.
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Office, 1945). 41. Robert Butow, Japan’s Decision to Surrender (Stanford University Press, 1954). 42. Barton J. Bernstein, “Hiroshima and Nagasaki Reconsidered: The Atomic Bombings of Japan and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1945” (University Program Modular Studies, General Learning Press, 1945). 43. Ibid. 44. Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, 698. 45. Herbert Feis, Japan Subdued (Princeton University Press, 1962). 46. Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (Simon
that breaking the law for a social purpose will lead to breaking the law for other purposes. A study of 300 young black people who engaged in civil disobedience found “virtually no manifestations of delinquency or anti-social behavior, no school drop-outs, and no known illegitimate pregnancies.” Pierce and West, “Six Years of Sit-Ins: Psychodynamics, Cause and Effects,” International Journal of Social Psychiatry (Winter 1966). The authors conclude, “In any event, the evidence is insufficient to
(Sept.–Oct. 1979). 18. Quoted by John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom (Knopf, 1967), 556. Also in Strickland, “The Road Since Brown.” 19. Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education, 396 U.S. 19 (1969). The Nixon administration had tried to delay court-ordered desegregation of thirty-three Mississippi school districts, and the Supreme Court was unanimous in insisting that segregation must be ended “at once.” 20. This was reported by Martin Luther King, Jr. The phrase became the title
the, 1, 99, 126, 280; and civil disobedience, 122, 133, 230; and the civil rights movement, 129–31; and class issues, 288; and communism, 1, 265, 267; and the declaration of war, 124; and direct action, 291; domino theory of the, 14; and the draft, 106–7, 120–21, 125, 130, 131, 134, 136–37, 143; economic cost of, 296; and explanations for human nature/violence, 44–46; and foreign policy, 124, 125, 133; and freedom of expression, 130, 190, 193–94, 196–97, 199–200, 212, 215–16, 221–22, 230; and
in this country. We can see this in the almost religious fervor that accompanied the year of the Bicentennial, 200 years after the framing of the Constitution. In 1987, from newspapers, television, radio, from the pulpits and the classrooms, from the halls of Congress, and in the statements issued by the White House, we heard praise of that document drawn up by the Founding Fathers. Parade magazine, read by several million people, printed a short essay by President Ronald Reagan. In it he said,
