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Out Quotes by Howard Zinn
- Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils…
- ...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single…
- With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and…
- 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…
- 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 wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
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