Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed… — 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
If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world,… — 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
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
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
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
It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world:… — 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
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
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
What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever… — 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
