Lifelong friend of Howard Zinn reads an excerpt from his speech delivered in 1970:
1 Here are some quotes out of the speech. What is meant by them and how can they be understood within the whole speech?
- What does Matt Damon/Howard Zinn
mean when they say ‘I start from the supposition that the world is topsy-turvy’?
- 'A drastic reallocation of wealth'
- In what way do Matt Damon/Howard
Zinn justify the statement that our problem is ‘civil obedience’?
- ‘The rule of law is the darling of
the leaders and the plague of the people'
- ‘What we are trying to do, I assume,
is really to get back to the principles and aims and spirit of the Declaration
of Independence. This spirit is resistance to illegitimate authority and the
forces that deprive people of their life and liberty and right to pursue of
happiness, and therefore, under these conditions, it urges the right to alter
or abolish their current form of government and the stress had been on abolish’
‘ - To stop obeying the laws that
demand killing or that allocate wealth the way it’s being done, or that put
people in jail for petty, technical offences, and keep other people out of jail
for enormous crimes’
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