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Important Quotes by Howard Zinn
- 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…
- The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of course, depends…
- George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of…
- Democracy depends on citizens being informed, and since our media, especially television (which is the most important source of news for most Americans) reports mostly…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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