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   FatterDumber& Happier Moe to Tantra-Hammock   
   Re: The safety of silence   
   21 Aug 10 17:51:59   
   
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   From: "WheresMyCheck"@UncleSamLoves.Mee   
      
   His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of   
   Tantra-Hammock wrote:   
   > On Aug 21, 12:11 am, "Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D."    
   > wrote:   
   >>> Howard Zinn   
   >>> (August 24 1922 - January 27 2010)   
   >>> "From the start, my teaching was infused with my own history. I would try   
   >>> to be fair to other points of view, but I wanted more than 'objectivity';   
   >>> I wanted students to leave my classes not just better informed, but   
   >>> more prepared to relinquish the safety of silence, more prepared   
   >>> to speak up, to act against injustice wherever they saw it.   
   >>> This, of course, was a recipe for trouble."   
   >>>   – Howard Zinn   
   >> "safety of silence"   
   >>   
   >> Wow!...what a profound phrase!   
   >>   
   >   
   > I call it the "safety of camouflage" in my jungle language.   
   >   
   > Many Christians wear such disguises, but not nonreligious people.   
   >   
   >   
   > ------------------------------------------------------------------   
   >   
   > "YOU'D USE THE BANANA THE WAY THE TAMER USES A CHAIR... It's a   
   > DISTRACTION, which gives you time to think or run. Or maybe he'll eat   
   > it and become a happy lion."   
   >   
   > http://webspawner.com/users/BANANAREVOLUTION   
      
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