"But human beings are not machines, and however……" — Howard Zinn
"But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope."
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154 Quotes by Howard Zinn
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They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
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I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different…
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history…
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Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the…
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Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you…
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If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the…
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There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved…
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -…
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...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in…
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...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
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I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or…
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
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