They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“George Washington had turned down the requests of blacks, seeking freedom, to fight in the Revolutionary army. So when the British military… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Frances Wright was a writer, founder of a utopian community, immigrant from Scotland in 1824, a fighter for the emancipation of slaves,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“In America, too, the reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“What if citizens organized to demand what the Declaration of Independence promised: a government that protected the equal rights of all to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see… — 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
“The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The issues of free trade are complicated, but protestors asked a simple question: Should the health and freedom of ordinary people all… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The Albany police chief, after one of the mass arrests, was taking the names of prisoners lined up before his desk. He… — 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
We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“As many as half the people were not even considered by the Founding Fathers as among Bailyn’s “contending powers” in society. They… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“When feminist impulses are recorded, they are, almost always, the writings of privileged women who had some status from which to speak… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are all part of the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“to find language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom… — 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
