"The courtroom is one instance of the fact……" — Howard Zinn
"The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power."
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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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And Tempus thought then that nothing was more worthwhile than what was growing in this whitewashed barracks, where he has…
— Janet Morris
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You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the…
— Josemaria Escriva
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But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of…
— Shelby Foote
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And on a Canadian set, everybody is equal. You get paid the same. You live together in barracks. You have…
— Sandra Oh
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Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
— Michel Foucault
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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a…
— Sean O'Casey
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The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers...
— Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it, to his home, to his centers…
— Che Guevara
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Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard…
— James G. Stavridis
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A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not…
— Catherine Booth
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Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll…
— Peter Ustinov
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It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some…
— Mel Torme
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