24.4.11

Sunday ka Funda

"In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims."

— Howard Zinn

2 comments:

  1. Other than Chomsky, Howard is one of my other favorite intellectual.

    What appropriate words for what is happening in Palestine.

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  2. Hitesh:

    I used the quote for what's happening in India, not Palestine!

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