If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the… — 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
