"If democracy were to be given any meaning,……" — Howard Zinn
"If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed."
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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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Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Of agitating good roads there is no end, and perhaps this is as it should be, but I think you'll…
— Carl G. Fisher
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Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Embracing your new kind of normal is the most empowering choice you will ever make. It transcends common sense. It…
— Carol Kent
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What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is…
— Charles Baxter
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The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or…
— Wilfred Owen
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the…
— Koichi Tohei
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Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty…
— Frederick Douglass
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The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to…
— Agnes Repplier
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Not only should we observe moderation with food, but we must also abstain from every other sin so that just…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring,…
— Asger Jorn
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