Humans Quotes by Howard Zinn

20 Humans quotes by Howard Zinn

When Zinn turns his eye to humanity, he pulls out the gritty, everyday struggles that shape our societies. In these twenty snippets you’ll feel his activist pulse, reminding us that history lives in the choices of ordinary people.

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When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

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...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

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“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these…

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People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It…

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I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from…

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Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that…

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It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and…

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The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of…

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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a…

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My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will…

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The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established…

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The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination…

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Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have…

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Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that…

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I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,…

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To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of…

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We need to organize ourselves and protest against existing order - against war, against economic and sexual exploitation, against racism, etc. But…

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But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see…

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In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only…

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That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't know what's going on below. You don't see the…

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There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

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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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