Howard Zinn - “Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling...”

“Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.”

Howard Zinn You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

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