If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I don't think we can depend on Congress. In the American political system - we have been brought up to believe that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the… — 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
I believe there are huge numbers of people in this country who would be willing to have radical changes in our economic… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way… — 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… — 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… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Objectivity is impossible and it is also undesirable. That is, if it were possible it would be undesirable, because if you have… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would… — 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
War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends,… — 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
I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The white population could not possibly be unaffected by those events - some whites more stubborn in their defense of segregation, but… — 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
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
I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims… — 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
I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of… — 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
