Best Howard Zinn Lines
- We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared… All
- Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are… Constitution
- You can't be neutral on a moving train. Conviction
- The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such… Assurance
- But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not… Acutely
- Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them. Advantage
- There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people… All
- I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War… Affair
- History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you.… Absolutely
- Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world. Alive
- That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and… Act
- I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. Believed
- But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that… Beings
- I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become… Accept
- Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all… All
- The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving… Barracks
- Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives. Beauty
- I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I… Accumulation
- Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. Act
- The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is… All
- Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man? God
- I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what… Anyone
- When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant. Fight
- Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of… Advantage
- If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country,… All
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