War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Unemployment, hard times, were growing in 1914. Could guns divert attention and create some national consensus against an external enemy? It surely… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We cannot create blueprint for future society, but it is good to think about that. It is good to have in mind… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The system was psychological and physical at the same time. The slaves were taught discipline, were impressed again and again with the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the… — 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
To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media,… — 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
