Best Howard Zinn Quotes
- People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up… American
- Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are… All
- There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams… Age
- In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn. Both
- These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower… Alliance
- If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism? Country
- The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some… Any
- Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of… Albert
- We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them… All
- To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage,… Act
- If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's… Bottom
- I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go… Armor
- One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are… Becomes
- War itself is the enemy of the human race. Enemy
- What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do… Act
- The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future. Belongs
- Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more… Betrayal
- Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They… Acted
- The future is an infinite succession of presents. Future
- Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that change comes about… Acts
- If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday. Born
- Education can, and should be, dangerous. Dangerous
- War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it… Able
- The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold on… Abandoned
- Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This… Body
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