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