"There was something horrifying in the realization that,……" — Howard Zinn
"There was something horrifying in the realization that, in this twenty-first century of what we call 'civilization,' we have carved up what we claim is one world into 200 artificially created entities we call 'nations' and armed to apprehend or kill anyone who crosses a boundary."
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Howard Zinn
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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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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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War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's…
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