Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and… — 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,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative… — 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
“Before this, the Cherokees had, like Indian tribes in general, done without formal government. As Van Every puts it: The foundation principle… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“What if citizens organized to demand what the Declaration of Independence promised: a government that protected the equal rights of all to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Clearly, there was something amiss with a political system, supposed to be democratic, in which the desires of the voters were repeatedly… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The Constitution became even more acceptable to the public at large after the first Congress, responding to criticism, passed a series of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, the government of the United States was behaving almost exactly as Karl Marx described a capitalist state: pretending neutrality to maintain… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The American Anti-Slavery Society, on the other hand, said the war was “waged solely for the detestable and horrible purpose of extending… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I don't think we can depend on Congress. In the American political system - we have been brought up to believe that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is one central characteristic of anarchism on the matter of means, and that central principle is a principle of direct action… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The Mexicans had fired the first shot. But they had done what the American government wanted, according to Colonel Hitchcock, who wrote… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of humiliation! How… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The very poor could not be counted on to support the government. They were like the slaves and Indians—invisible most of the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that… — 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
“As for the Cherokees, they faced a set of laws passed by Georgia: their lands were taken, their government abolished, all meetings… — 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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