I believe there are huge numbers of people in this country who would be willing to have radical changes in our economic… — 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
“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism? — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these… — 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
Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It… — 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
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