"He had his faults and his
defects, but they were
largely the defects of the
qualities that made him
great..."
Samuel Morison,
Christopher Columbus, Mariner
"To emphasize the heroism
of Columbus and his successors
as navigators and discoverers,
and to de-emphasize
their genocide, is not
a technical necessity but an
ideological choice. It serves
to justify what was done..."
Howard Zinn,
A People's History of the U.S.
