World Quotes by Howard Zinn

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

— Howard Zinn

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

— Howard Zinn

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of…

— Howard Zinn

If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you…

— Howard Zinn

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

— Howard Zinn

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the…

— Howard Zinn

What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear…

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Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed…

— Howard Zinn

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

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

Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is…

— Howard Zinn

The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people…

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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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The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established…

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Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the…

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“We are not hated because we practice democracy, value freedom, or uphold human rights. We are hated because our government denies these…

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I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after…

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What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever…

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Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are…

— Howard Zinn

Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed…

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There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that…

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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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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what…

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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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We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions…

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And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert…

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

— Howard Zinn

The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of…

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The problem of giving health care to everybody cannot be solved so long as we're spending huge sums of money for war.…

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I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched…

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The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is…

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Here's a president who gets 47 or 48 percent of the vote and takes 100 percent of the power, as if he…

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Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed…

— Howard Zinn

I start from the supposition that the world is topsyturvy, that things are all wrong, that the wrong people are in jail…

— Howard Zinn

I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would…

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Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic"…

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The film's title You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. comes from something I used to say in teaching my students…

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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

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love…

— Howard Zinn