There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — 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… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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
Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Though the Americans can be fooled, as they have been, and they can be propagandized, as they have been... But, as Lincoln… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of… — 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
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas… — 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
There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What is called “apathy” is, I believe, a feeling of helplessness on the part of the ordinary citizen, a feeling of impotence… — 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
