Zoia Horn

Zoia Markovna Horn (March 14, 1918 – July 12, 2014) was an American librarian and human rights activist.

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