"I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all."

-- Howard Zinn

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“As a people, our monuments never commemorate victories. They commemorate the names of the fallen. We don't need the Arc de Triomphe; we have Masada, Tel-Hai, and the Warsaw Ghetto -Â where the battle was lost, but the war of Jewish existence was won.”
“Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.”
“When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.”
“I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.”
“I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is for the thugs too - but the streets are in the most trouble. So I'mma keep it focused on the streets and the struggle. That's what I'm mainly about.”
“We love to live a simple life... we simply love the life we live though some would say it's hard.”

Source : "A Picnic of Poems: In Allah's Green Garden". Book by Dawud Wharnsby, 2011.
“We live in wonder, blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension.”

Source : Carolyn Kizer (2002). “Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000”, p.144, Copper Canyon Press
“I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.”

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