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Government Quotes by Howard Zinn
- They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
- Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that intervention…
- 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…
- There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large,…
- 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…
- Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more…
- Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their…
- When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government…
- Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative of the national…
- When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
- There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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,…
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- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida