Children Quotes by Howard Zinn

16 Children quotes by Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn’s perspective on children emerges in sixteen sharp statements, underscoring his focus on equity and activism. The quotes illuminate how youth intersect with broader societal forces.

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In Tampa, a race riot began when drunken white soldiers used a negro child as a target to show their markmanship...

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“in the industrial towns children went to work with their fathers and mothers, schools and doctors were only promises, a bed of…

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War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

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I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world,…

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We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media,…

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(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration…

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Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that…

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The film's title You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. comes from something I used to say in teaching my students…

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The stories coming out of Iraq everyday - the violence, the chaos, the deaths of Americans, the deaths of Iraqis... Of course…

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I did not feel very patriotic. I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that…

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“What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems,…

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I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military…

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“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to…

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“That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism.… Instead of sending our sons and…

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“In the problem of women was the germ of a solution, not only for their oppression, but for everybody's. The control of…

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“Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty wilderness, but into a world which in some places was as densely…

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“a good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while…

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The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and…

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Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that…

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I can UNDERSTAND pessimism, but I don't BELIEVE in it. It's not simply a matter of faith, but of historical EVIDENCE. Not overwhelming evidence,…

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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of…

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Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe…

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They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.…

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“Sexual purity was to be the special virtue of a woman. It was assumed that men, as a matter of biological nature, would sin,…

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“Middle-class Americans might be invited to join a new elite by attacks against the corruption of the established rich. The New Yorker Cadwallader Colden,…

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If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will…

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We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts…

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Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality…

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“George Washington had turned down the requests of blacks, seeking freedom, to fight in the Revolutionary army. So when the British military commander in…

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