United Quotes by Howard Zinn

17 United quotes by Howard Zinn

Zinn’s take on unity is steeped in the stories of ordinary people shaping history. This collection of seventeen thoughts invites you to consider how shared struggles and common goals have driven societal shifts.

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I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world,…

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We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an…

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The United States builds weapons presumably secretly, and then it sells them to other countries. So the whole business of secrecy is…

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There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United…

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Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests,…

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It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world:…

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When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

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In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

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The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only…

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The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring…

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Imperialism is the factor in American policy, not just since 1898, but in fact long before it when we were expanding across…

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The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful…

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There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their…

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My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will…

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If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to…

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The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom…

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People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism.…

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“George Washington had turned down the requests of blacks, seeking freedom, to fight in the Revolutionary army. So when the British military commander in…

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