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Howard Zinn

“To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to deemphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves—unwittingly—to justify what was done.”

Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn
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