--- title: "29 Justice Quotes By Howard Zinn" description: "29 Justice quotes by Howard Zinn. Plus more from Howard Zinn and more Justice sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff0/howard-zinn-576_courts_to-hell-with-your-courts-i-know-what-jus_3184598.jpg" --- > [“To hell with your courts, I know what justice is.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/to-hell-with-your-courts-i-know-what-justice-is/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff0/howard-zinn-576_courts_to-hell-with-your-courts-i-know-what-jus_3184598.jpg) > [You can't be neutral on a moving train.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/you-can-t-be-neutral-on-a-moving-train/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd7/howard-zinn-576_fitness_you-can-t-be-neutral-on-a-moving-train-2_2844541.jpg) > [I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/i-always-emphasize-the-historic-role-of-people-of-color-in-organizing/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ee/howard-zinn-576_achieve_i-always-emphasize-the-historic-role-of_2766240.jpg) > [The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/the-cry-of-the-poor-is-is-not-always-just-but-if-you-don-t-listen-to/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c0/howard-zinn-576_cry_the-cry-of-the-poor-is-is-not-always-jus_167753.jpg) > [What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/what-motivates-me-is-the-desire-to-bring-up-a-whole-new-generation-of/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/291/howard-zinn-576_active_what-motivates-me-is-the-desire-to-bring_3164052.jpg) > [If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/if-you-join-a-fight-for-social-justice-you-may-win-or-lose-but-just/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5c/howard-zinn-576_action_if-you-join-a-fight-for-social-justice-y_2476125.jpg) > [I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/i-have-come-to-believe-that-our-lives-can-be-turned-in-a-different/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/howard-zinn-576_belief_i-have-come-to-believe-that-our-lives-ca_1247658.jpg) > [Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/very-important-thing-to-keep-in-mind-that-when-justice-comes-and-when/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/howard-zinn-576_government_very-important-thing-to-keep-in-mind-tha_175257.jpg) > [People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/people-who-have-no-respect-for-human-life-or-for-freedom-or-justice/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/346/howard-zinn-576_american-people_people-who-have-no-respect-for-human-lif_3176842.jpg) > [The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/the-historian-s-distortion-is-more-than-technical-it-is-ideological/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f5/howard-zinn-576_chosen_the-historian-s-distortion-is-more-than_237203.jpg) > [But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/but-by-this-time-i-was-acutely-conscious-of-the-gap-between-law-and/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efb/howard-zinn-576_conscious_but-by-this-time-i-was-acutely-conscious_2363938.jpg) > [I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/i-will-try-not-to-overlook-the-cruelties-that-victims-inflict-on-one/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/55d/howard-zinn-576_cruelty_i-will-try-not-to-overlook-the-cruelties_349510.jpg) > [I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/i-came-to-the-conclusion-that-war-was-an-unacceptable-way-of-solving/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e73/howard-zinn-576_buried_i-came-to-the-conclusion-that-war-was-an_1006964.jpg) > [The stories coming out of Iraq everyday - the violence, the chaos, the deaths of Americans, the deaths of Iraqis... Of course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/the-stories-coming-out-of-iraq-everyday-the-violence-the-chaos-the/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e6/howard-zinn-576_chaos_the-stories-coming-out-of-iraq-everyday_2969032.jpg) > [If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/if-patriotism-were-defined-not-as-blind-obedience-to-government-not/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce1/howard-zinn-576_anthem_if-patriotism-were-defined-not-as-blind_1050451.jpg) > [I was just a seventeen-year-old kid, going to Times Square to participate in this left-wing demonstration. The signs were for peace and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/i-was-just-a-seventeen-year-old-kid-going-to-times-square-to/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b8/howard-zinn-576_all-kinds_i-was-just-a-seventeen-year-old-kid-goin_1320881.jpg) > [The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/the-struggle-for-justice-should-never-be-abandoned-because-of-the/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f3/howard-zinn-576_abandoned_the-struggle-for-justice-should-never-be_1585438.jpg) > [Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/objectivity-is-impossible-and-it-is-also-undesirable-that-is-if-it/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/295/howard-zinn-576_aim_objectivity-is-impossible-and-it-is-also_2469482.jpg) > [If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/if-we-have-learned-anything-in-the-past-ten-years-it-is-that-these/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f1c/howard-zinn-576_aggressive_if-we-have-learned-anything-in-the-past_532118.jpg) > [“A young woman: “As a white middle class person I’ve never felt discriminated against at all. But I’ll say this: If anyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/a-young-woman-as-a-white-middle-class-person-i-ve-never-felt/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ba/howard-zinn-576_justice_a-young-woman-as-a-white-middle-class-pe_2614305.jpg) > [“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/civil-disobedience-as-i-put-it-to-the-audience-was-not-the-problem/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb7/howard-zinn-576_acquiescence_civil-disobedience-as-i-put-it-to-the-au_1483977.jpg) > [“The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/the-willingness-to-undertake-such-action-cannot-be-based-on/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cc/howard-zinn-576_compassion_the-willingness-to-undertake-such-action_689603.jpg) > [“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/i-am-convinced-that-imprisonment-is-a-way-of-pretending-to-solve-the/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd9/howard-zinn-576_crime_i-am-convinced-that-imprisonment-is-a-wa_458576.jpg) > [Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/whenever-i-become-discouraged-which-is-on-alternate-tuesdays-between/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/howard-zinn-576_art_whenever-i-become-discouraged-which-is-o_1599164.jpg) > [“A jury is always a more orthodox body than any defendant brought before it; for blacks it is usually a whiter group,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/a-jury-is-always-a-more-orthodox-body-than-any-defendant-brought/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/howard-zinn-576_criminal-justice-sys_a-jury-is-always-a-more-orthodox-body-th_1447147.jpg) > [We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/we-ve-never-had-our-injustices-rectified-from-the-top-from-the/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8a/howard-zinn-576_balance_we-ve-never-had-our-injustices-rectified_2577815.jpg) > [There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/there-is-a-power-that-can-be-created-out-of-pent-up-indignation/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/69a/howard-zinn-576_body_there-is-a-power-that-can-be-created-out_639309.jpg) > [Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/where-progress-has-been-made-wherever-any-kind-of-injustice-has-been/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3de/howard-zinn-576_attention_where-progress-has-been-made-wherever-an_1501096.jpg) > [Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/now-i-have-been-studying-very-closely-what-happens-every-day-in-the/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb6/howard-zinn-576_astounded_now-i-have-been-studying-very-closely-wh_78516.jpg) ## Other authors on Justice - [Martin Luther King, Jr 123 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/martin-luther-king-jr/) - [Aristotle 61 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sunday-adelaja-87912.jpg) Sunday Adelaja 59 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/sunday-adelaja/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 54 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/barack-obama/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-desmond-tutu-28967.jpg) Desmond Tutu 50 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/desmond-tutu/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-plato-75782.jpg) Plato 43 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/plato/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-suzy-kassem-596.jpg) Suzy Kassem 42 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/suzy-kassem/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pope-francis-75890.jpg) Pope Francis 42 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/pope-francis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-donald-trump-30060.jpg) Donald Trump 38 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/donald-trump/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 37 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-martin-luther-64750.jpg) Martin Luther 36 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/martin-luther/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michelle-alexander-67636.jpg) Michelle Alexander 35 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/michelle-alexander/) ## More by Howard Zinn > [“A black man, Benjamin Banneker, who taught himself mathematics and astronomy, predicted accurately a solar eclipse, and was appointed to plan the new city…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/a-black-man-benjamin-banneker-who-taught-himself-mathematics-and/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/there-is-no-flag-large-enough-to-cover-the-shame-of-killing-innocent/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [“a good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/a-good-education-is-a-synthesis-of-book-learning-and-involvement-in/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/the-mountain-of-history-books-under-which-we-all-stand-leans-so/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/let-s-face-a-historical-truth-we-have-never-had-a-free-market-we-have/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/i-can-understand-pessimism-but-i-don-t-believe-in-it-it-s-not-simply/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/protest-beyond-the-law-is-not-a-departure-from-democracy-it-is/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/now-i-have-been-studying-very-closely-what-happens-every-day-in-the/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/they-were-not-mentioned-in-the-declaration-of-independence-they-were/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [“Sexual purity was to be the special virtue of a woman. It was assumed that men, as a matter of biological nature, would sin,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/sexual-purity-was-to-be-the-special-virtue-of-a-woman-it-was-assumed/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/middle-class-americans-might-be-invited-to-join-a-new-elite-by/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/if-those-in-charge-of-our-society-politicians-corporate-executives/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/we-were-not-born-critical-of-existing-society-there-was-a-moment-in/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/behind-the-deceptive-words-designed-to-entice-people-into-supporting/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) > [“George Washington had turned down the requests of blacks, seeking freedom, to fight in the Revolutionary army. So when the British military commander in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/george-washington-had-turned-down-the-requests-of-blacks-seeking/) [Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/justice/howard-zinn/#itemlist", "name": "29 Justice Quotes By Howard Zinn", "numberOfItems": 29, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“To hell with your courts, I know what justice is.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Howard Zinn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/to-hell-with-your-courts-i-know-what-justice-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff0/howard-zinn-576_courts_to-hell-with-your-courts-i-know-what-jus_3184598.jpg", "contentUrl": 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