Political Quotes by Howard Zinn

18 Political quotes by Howard Zinn

Zinn’s 18 lines bring his activist spirit to the fore, questioning power structures and championing the underdog. The collection offers a succinct glimpse of his critical view of political events and the importance of grassroots voices.

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They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new…

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I don't think we can depend on Congress. In the American political system - we have been brought up to believe that…

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The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen…

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Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them.…

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I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right…

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I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude…

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The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people…

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It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants…

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I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let…

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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…

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There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's…

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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…

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I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,…

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We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should…

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Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he…

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If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere,…

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Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very…

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The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring…

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There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

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“a good education is a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, because each enrich the other. The accumulation of knowledge, while…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of…

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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…

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They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.…

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“Sexual purity was to be the special virtue of a woman. It was assumed that men, as a matter of biological nature, would sin,…

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“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,…

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If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will…

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We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts…

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Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality…

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“George Washington had turned down the requests of blacks, seeking freedom, to fight in the Revolutionary army. So when the British military commander in…

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