Possibility Quotes by Howard Zinn

10 Possibility quotes by Howard Zinn

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Howard Zinn’s ten short statements frame possibility as a tool for social change. His words carry a quiet urgency, urging readers to see how collective action can reshape the future.

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In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

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I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of…

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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…

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But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see…

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Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that…

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I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all…

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What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our…

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“If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities…

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War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends,…

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We cannot create blueprint for future society, but it is good to think about that. It is good to have in mind…

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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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