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"I only have 30 min. so I thought I would begin with the Stone Age. Mankind has gone through the age of stone and the age of bronze, & today we live in the age of irony. . . And it goes something like this. We the American people do not want to live in a Communist state." 1/5

"The reason for this is not so much that we object to a planned economy, although many of us do. Not so much that we object to socialized medicine . . . We don’t want to live in a Communist state b/c we don’t want any gov't agency inspecting what we say, what we think.. . " 2/5

".. . the associations we have, the paintings we paint, the writings we write, the books we read, the meetings we go to, the organizations we join. . . And so in order to avoid all this we set up HUAC. And this committee in order to prevent us from experiencing this. . ." 3/5

. . . inspects what we read, looks at who we associate with, checks up on the things we write, the books we read, the meetings we go to. . . " -- Howard Zinn in debate on HUAC #tdih 1963
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Zinn's opening remarks for the debate on the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) are in "Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary."
You can listen to full audio of debate (with transcripts) at HowardZinn(dot)org in new digital collection of Zinn's work. 5/5
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