Howard Zinn

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

— Howard Zinn

The future is an infinite succession of presents.

— Howard Zinn

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

— Howard Zinn

“Catholic Church, expelled all the Jews,”

— Howard Zinn

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

— Howard Zinn

“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can change the world.”

— Howard Zinn

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

— Howard Zinn

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

— Howard Zinn

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that…

— Howard Zinn

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to…

— Howard Zinn

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.

— Howard Zinn

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

— Howard Zinn

“Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil. . . .”

— Howard Zinn

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us

— Howard Zinn

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

— Howard Zinn

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

— Howard Zinn

The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons…

— Howard Zinn

“Just as African Americans had learned that they did not have enough strength to make good the promises of emancipation, working people…

— Howard Zinn

David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive…

— Howard Zinn

“If you permit unprincipled and ambitious men to monopolize the soil, they will become masters of the country in the certain order…

— Howard Zinn

“Roosevelt was as much concerned to end the oppression of Jews as Lincoln was to end slavery during the Civil War; their…

— Howard Zinn

The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in…

— Howard Zinn

Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's…

— Howard Zinn

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

— Howard Zinn

There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's…

— Howard Zinn

Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them.…

— Howard Zinn

If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We…

— Howard Zinn

“There was much talk in the American press in the early eighties about the political cautiousness of a new generation of college…

— Howard Zinn

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard…

— Howard Zinn

“Carl Bridenbaugh’s study of colonial cities, Cities in the Wilderness, reveals a clear-cut class system. He finds: The leaders of early Boston…

— Howard Zinn

“What if citizens organized to demand what the Declaration of Independence promised: a government that protected the equal rights of all to…

— Howard Zinn

“Some of the New York Radical Women shortly afterward formed WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell) and its members, dressed as…

— Howard Zinn

“My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia. It is too late for that;…

— Howard Zinn

“A black man, Benjamin Banneker, who taught himself mathematics and astronomy, predicted accurately a solar eclipse, and was appointed to plan the…

— Howard Zinn

“George Washington had turned down the requests of blacks, seeking freedom, to fight in the Revolutionary army. So when the British military…

— Howard Zinn

“Paine’s pamphlet appealed to a wide range of colonial opinion angered by England. But it caused some tremors in aristocrats like John…

— Howard Zinn

“In April 1914, two National Guard companies were stationed in the hills overlooking the largest tent colony of strikers, the one at…

— Howard Zinn

“In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in 1824, came the first known strike of women factory workers; 202 women joined men in protesting a…

— Howard Zinn

“All those histories of this country centered on the Founding Fathers and the Presidents weigh oppressively on the capacity of the ordinary…

— Howard Zinn

“There were moments of racial unity. Lawrence Goodwyn found in east Texas an unusual coalition of black and white public officials: it…

— Howard Zinn