“in the industrial towns children went to work with their fathers and mothers, schools and doctors were only promises, a bed of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In Tampa, a race riot began when drunken white soldiers used a negro child as a target to show their markmanship... — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The film's title You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. comes from something I used to say in teaching my students… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I did not feel very patriotic. I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The stories coming out of Iraq everyday - the violence, the chaos, the deaths of Americans, the deaths of Iraqis... Of course… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by pledges of allegiance, national anthems,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“That hatred we have sown has come back to haunt us in the form of terrorism.… Instead of sending our sons and… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“In the problem of women was the germ of a solution, not only for their oppression, but for everybody's. The control of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty wilderness, but into a world which in some places was as densely… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“A black man, Benjamin Banneker, who taught himself mathematics and astronomy, predicted accurately a solar eclipse, and was appointed to plan the new city… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“a good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Sexual purity was to be the special virtue of a woman. It was assumed that men, as a matter of biological nature, would sin,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“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,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
