Thursday, May 21, 2009

Howard Zinn: America's 'Three Holy Wars'


Howard Zinn speaks at
The Progressive Magazine's 100th Anniversary:


How different our world would be if great numbers of us
knew the wisdom, heart, and knowledge of Howard Zinn.

Peace ~ Molly

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Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. ~ George Santayana

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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