“Ruling elites seem to have learned through the generations—consciously or not—that war makes them more secure against internal trouble.” — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory. — 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
The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Jackson began raids into Florida, arguing it was a sanctuary for escaped slaves and for marauding Indians. Florida, he said, was essential… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there… — 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
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the "peace" candidate… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The United States government was proud that, although perhaps 100,000 Iraqis had died in the Gulf War of 1991, there were only… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“to find language inspiring to all classes, specific enough in its listing of grievances to charge people with anger against the British,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The problem of giving health care to everybody cannot be solved so long as we're spending huge sums of money for war.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“... the atmosphere of war brutalizes everyone involved, begets a fanaticism in which the original moral factor is buried at the bottom… — 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
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