But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is… — 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
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
One of the problems with dealing with anarchism is that there are many people whose ideas are anarchist, but who do not… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
[...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the… — 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
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be… — 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
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
The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I would prefer to use a very inclusive definition of the working class. I'd like to include all of those people who… — 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
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
What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not… — 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
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
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
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion. — 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
Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice. — 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
People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in 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
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