QUOTES
The
strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning
of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome
state or corporate power.
"We
need to rethink our position in the world. We need to stop sending weapons to
countries that oppress other people. We need to decide that we will not go to
war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war
in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times."
The
historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released
into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind
of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.
I
have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our
minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event.
That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just
contemplate it or do something with it.
