In Tampa, a race riot began when drunken white soldiers used a negro child as a target to show their markmanship... — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“...[T]hat combination of inferior status and derogatory thought [is what] we call racism.” — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of… — 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
We need to organize ourselves and protest against existing order - against war, against economic and sexual exploitation, against racism, etc. But… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the greater consciousness among Whites about Black equality has not carried over to the new victims of racism - Muslims and… — 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 of Washington, wrote to Thomas Jefferson: I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
“A black man, Benjamin Banneker, who taught himself mathematics and astronomy, predicted accurately a solar eclipse, and was appointed to plan the new city of Washington, wrote to Thomas Jefferson: I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
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, but woman must not surrender. As one male author said: “If you do, you will be left in silent sadness to bewail your credulity, imbecility, duplicity, and premature prostitution.” A woman wrote that females would get… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
“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, in his Address to the Freeholders in 1747, attacked the wealthy as tax dodgers unconcerned with the welfare of others (although he himself was wealthy) and spoke for the honesty and dependability of “the midling rank… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
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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