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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
By Howard Zinn

I wanted in writing this book to awaken the consciousness of my readers of class conflict, racial injustice, of sexual inequality, and of national arrogance.

And I also wanted to bring into light the hidden resistance of the people against the power of the establishment.

I thought to omit these acts of resistance, to omit these victories, however limited, by the people of the United States was to create the idea that power rests only with those who have the guns or possess the wealth.

I wanted to point out that people who seem to have no power, working people, people of color, women, once they organize, and protest and create national movements they have a power that no government can suppress.