The Power of the People
As you know, the Senate just confirmed a new Supreme Court Justice, hand-picked by the far right Federalist Society. For hope and solace, activists have turned once again to the
words of Howard Zinn
---- to remind us that in the end, it is the power of the people that leads to real change. In his 2005 essay after the confirmation of Justice John Roberts, Howard wrote:
It would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.
Wineburg argued that Howard Zinn's approach to history is "dangerous" because "Zinn's power of persuasion extinguishes students' ability to think and speaks directly to their hearts."
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