"In the United States today, the Declaration of……" — Howard Zinn
"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli."
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154 Quotes by Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn has 154 quotes on this site.
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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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More Declaration Quotes
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Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just…
— Russell Baker
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The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of…
— John Adams
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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were…
— Gary Bauer
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
— Otto von Bismarck
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No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by…
— Theodore Bikel
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of…
— Tony Blair
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I would have to have people totally committed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of this United States.…
— Herman Cain
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all other Americans want. He wants…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - This great and inspiring instrument was born of an increased sense of responsibility…
— U Thant
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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
— Abraham Lincoln
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