Quotation by Howard Zinn:

If there is going to be change," he said, "real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves.

Howard Zinn     (more by this author)

1922-2010 (Age at death: 88 approx.)

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010) was an American historian and Professor of Political Science at Boston University from 1964 to 1988. He was the author of more than 20 books, including A People's History of the United States (1980). Zinn was active in the civil rights, civil liberties and anti-war movements in the United States, and wrote extensively on all three subjects.

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Country: United States

Type: Prose
Context: Unknown
Context Details: Op-Ed by Bob Herbert on Feb 12, 2011, the day after the Egyptian revolution toppled Hosni Mubarak. Herbert quotes Zinn from a conversation they had shortly before Zinn died.
Cited By: Bob Herbert