Zoia Horn

Zoia Markovna Horn (March 14, 1918 – July 12, 2014) was an American librarian and human rights activist. Quotes ZOIA!: Memoirs of Zoia Horn, Battler for the People's Right to Know Power corrupts people in small as well as big scale, I discovered. People with small powers use little irritants like flea bites, to assert control and punish. pg. 151 How does one help change the treadmill into a road, or better still, a meandering path? pg. 155 In Hitler's Germany, Jews were forced to wear identifying stars of David on their sleeves. Black people in the United States wore their identification all the time. pg. 158 Those days [in prison] revealed the banal cruelties that jails create and nurture. I saw people punished not only by being locked up but then by being degraded, treated capriciously, their personal dignity undermined, with no real recourse of appeal for fairness and justice. pg. 164 ...if you dislike something enough to criticize it, what are you going to do about it? It was like a refrain, often uncomfortable, but one that could not be silenced. pg. 165 External links Category:Librarians from the United States Category:Human rights activists Category:Jews from the United States Category:1918 births Category:2014 deaths Category:People from Odesa