"We've never had our injustices rectified from the……" — Howard Zinn
"We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior high school about how we have three branches of government, and we have checks and balances, and what a lovely system. No. The changes, important changes that we've had in history, have not come from those three branches of government. They have reacted to social movements."
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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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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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It isn't that women are less ambitious,but women want to find a balance between work, love, and family.
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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action…
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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are…
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