Best Howard Zinn Words
- The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is. Cry
- The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch… Inch
- Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of… All
- In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs),… Consisted
- The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger… Americans
- History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there… Anybody
- In war, good guys always become bad guys. Always Become
- We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can… Action
- How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? Inspirational
- Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. Absolutely
- There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States. Been
- If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those… Ability
- I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president… Begin
- Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. Acts
- What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to… Act
- They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They… Absent
- And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not… Albert
- Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. From
- The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary.… All
- Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are… All
- But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth. Act
- Surely, if it is the right of the people to "alter or abolish," it is their right to criticize, even severely, policies they believe destructive… Abolish
- The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new… All
- The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for… All
- Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition. Crosses
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