People Quote by Howard Zinn

“People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.”

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They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.…

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“Sexual purity was to be the special virtue of a woman. It was assumed that men, as a matter of biological nature, would sin,…

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