“And the New York Journal of Commerce, half-playfully, half-seriously, wrote: "Let us go to war. The world has become stale and insipid,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“As the war went on, opposition grew. The American Peace Society printed a newspaper, the Advocate of Peace, which published poems, speeches,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“But there is also (though much of this is kept from us, to keep us intimidated and without hope) the bubbling of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“after the war, historian Marilyn Young warned: The U.S. can destroy Iraq’s highways, but not build its own; create the conditions for… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“In Guatemala, in 1954, a legally elected government was overthrown by an invasion force of mercenaries trained by the CIA at military… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Roosevelt was as much concerned to end the oppression of Jews as Lincoln was to end slavery during the Civil War; their… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“The argument that there are just wars often rests on the social system of the nation engaging in war. It is supposed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The film's title You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. comes from something I used to say in teaching my students… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I began to think of war, even so-called "good wars" like World War II, as corrupting everybody. Violence begetting violence. The good… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If we trace origins of anarchism in the United States, then probably Henry David Thoreau is the closest you can come to… — 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
We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should… — 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
