en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/780943 Comments by dave8444 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/01/27/a-memory-of-howard-zinn/#IDComment55262362 Howard Zinn was a member of the Advisory Board of the National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case. He was not alone in being a great historian, nor was he alone in > being a fearless organizer and activist, but he was alone in being both at > the same time. He was, for me, a person for whom there were no convenient > labels. His commitment was to human beings, to their daily and lifetime > experiences. Justice was not an abstraction for Zinn, but a necessary > condition in the life of people seeking food, warmth, freedom. Like Whitman, > his ideology was compassion. And, like Tom Paine, his patriotism was an > energetic outreach to ordinary people to affirm their love of country, not > through docility, but through dissent from policies driven by greed, > pathological prejudice and imperial ambition. It is customary to say of such > a man that it will be a long time before another like him comes our way. > Zinn would dispute that, and would argue that many others like him are > already on their way. David Alman, President, National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case Thu, 4 Feb 2010 01:06:34 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2010/01/27/a-memory-of-howard-zinn/#IDComment55262362