Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“There was much talk in the American press in the early eighties about the political cautiousness of a new generation of college… — 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 U.S. government did not seem to recognize that its punitive foreign policies, its military installations in countries all over the globe,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“In Guatemala, in 1954, a legally elected government was overthrown by an invasion force of mercenaries trained by the CIA at military… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. . . .” — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the… — 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
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
That whole idea of threats to national security is a very interesting one. The phrase is very useful for the government to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Just as African Americans had learned that they did not have enough strength to make good the promises of emancipation, working people… — 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
“The good things that have been done, the reforms . . . all of that was not done by government edict. .… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“That myth led ordinary people to believe that they had a voice in government and that government looked out for their interests.… — 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
“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control. — 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
I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians,… — 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
