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Howard Zinn is the author of A People’s History of the United States and, most recently, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress.
This article was adapted from The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, www.theimpossible.org).
Parts of this essay also appeared in You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, in On History and on www.zmag.org.