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System 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…
- In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.
- These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower…
- [...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass…
- I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system.…
- The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for…
More System Quotes
- A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like… — Rudolf Arnheim
- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence… — Kelly Ayotte
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage
- Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character… — Joe Baca
- Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. — Michele Bachmann
- A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy.… — Michele Bachmann
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of… — Ray Stannard Baker
- I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. — Lucille Ball
- I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the… — Antonio Banderas
- The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where… — Henry Adams