Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The American Revolution is sometimes said to have brought about the separation of church and state. The northern states made such declarations,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“What did the Revolution mean to the Native Americans, the Indians? They had been ignored by the fine words of the Declaration,… — 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
“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Chapter 4 Tyranny Is Tyranny Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different… — 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
