A quote from Howard Zinn

In these dark days of ugly partisan divides, I turn to Zinn for some inspiration:

"What does it take to bring a turnaround in social consciousness... It seems to me that we need not engage in some fancy psychological experiment to learn the answer, but rather to look at ourselves and to talk to our friends. We then see, though it is unsettling, that we were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness--embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television.

This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas."

Howard Zinn in 2005, “Changing Minds, One at a time” https://progressive.org/magazine/changing-minds-one-time/