Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — 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
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities… — 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
I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. — 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
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them.… — 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
It had long been true, and prisoners knew this better than anyone, that the poorer you were the more likely you were… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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… — 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
And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert… — 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
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
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
For most Black people there is still poverty and desperation. The Ghettos still exist, and the proportion of Blacks in prison is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established… — 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
Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It's not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. And furthermore, it's not going to help. Then you might say,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence… — 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
“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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