"Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate……" — Howard Zinn
"Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse."
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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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More Alternate Quotes
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Compassion is an alternate perception
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Everything we did was a first: first bath, first walk, first drive in the car. It was like we walked…
— Soleil Moon Frye
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For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it…
— Nelson Goodman
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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the…
— George Eliot
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of…
— Jimmy Webb
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With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he…
— Jorma Kaukonen
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I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and…
— James Taylor
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The absolute minimum for effective exercise is three times a week on alternate days for at least half an hour.
— Jane Fonda
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An alternate explanation is not a refutation.
— Greg Koukl
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I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate…
— Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the…
— Natalie Zemon Davis
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Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before…
— Joan Aiken
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