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From Quotes by Howard Zinn
- They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
- Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils…
- We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior…
- We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example…
- If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if…
- 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…
- [...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass…
- The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis…
- I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin…
- Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
- Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
- Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.
- 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…
- 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…
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