Author, historian and activist Howard Zinn dies at 87

We leave you with the voice of Howard Zinn. The best-selling author, historian, playwright, and activist died Wednesday in Santa Monica, California.

Here he is reflecting on how he wants to be remembered, from one of a series of videos posted on the website bigthink.com.

"I guess if I want to be remembered for anything it’s for introducing a different way of thinking about the world, about war, about human rights, about equality, for getting more and more people to think that way, and for getting more people to realize that the power that rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, that the power ultimately rests with the people themselves, and that they can use it and that at certain points in history they have used it. Black people in the south used it, people in the women’s movement used it people in the anti-war movement used it, people in other countries who have overthrown tyrannies have used it. So I want to be remembered as somebody who gave people a feeling of hope and power that they didn't have before."

Anti-war activist and author of “The People’s History of the United States,” Howard Zinn, died Wednesday at the age of 87.