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War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. — Howard Zinn

Diverse audiences can be just as misled as homogenous audiences. — Howard Zinn

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory. — Howard Zinn

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. — Howard Zinn

It was borrowed time anyway - the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of a grand duc and the casualness of chorus girls. — Howard Zinn

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. — Howard Zinn

Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition. — Howard Zinn

Party politics and religion now substituting for class conflict. — Howard Zinn

Catholic Church, expelled all the Jews, — Howard Zinn

There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged. — Howard Zinn

was allowed to merge with Hartford. It was all settled out of court, — Howard Zinn

Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane. — Howard Zinn

More than half the colonists who came to the North American shores in the colonial period came as servants. — Howard Zinn

To hell with your courts, I know what justice is. — Howard Zinn

[T]hat combination of inferior status and derogatory thought [is what] we call racism. — Howard Zinn

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower? — Howard Zinn

It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control. — Howard Zinn

Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn

grievances of the lowest classes mingled with — Howard Zinn

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience ... th e problem in this world is civil obedience. — Howard Zinn

If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism? — Howard Zinn

Free white workers were better off than slaves or servants, but they still resented unfair treatment by the wealthier classes. — Howard Zinn

If you want to end terrorism, you have to stop being terrorists — Howard Zinn

In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead. — Howard Zinn

If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions. — Howard Zinn

I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country. — Howard Zinn

(Jefferson's personal distaste for slavery must be put alongside the fact that he owned hundreds of slaves to the day he died). — Howard Zinn

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — Howard Zinn

He estimates that perhaps 250,000 slaves were imported illegally before the Civil War. — Howard Zinn

Capital punishment could not be justified in any society calling itself civilized. — Howard Zinn

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So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people. — Howard Zinn

War itself is the enemy of the human race. — Howard Zinn

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. — Howard Zinn

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives. — Howard Zinn

When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant. — Howard Zinn

Education can, and should be, dangerous. — Howard Zinn

The principle is not that a human being cannot justly own another, but that he cannot own him unless he is loyal to the United States. — Howard Zinn

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color. — Howard Zinn

strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought — Howard Zinn

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war. — Howard Zinn

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli. — Howard Zinn

Racism was becoming more and more practical. — Howard Zinn

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. — Howard Zinn

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win. — Howard Zinn

You can't be neutral on a moving train. — Howard Zinn

The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense. — Howard Zinn

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday. — Howard Zinn

I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice. — Howard Zinn

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn. — Howard Zinn

When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue. — Howard Zinn

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can change the world. — Howard Zinn

Then Gregory lowered his voice, suddenly serious. "But it looks like we got to do it the hard way, and stay down here, and educate them. — Howard Zinn

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die. — Howard Zinn

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. — Howard Zinn

What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force. — Howard Zinn

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates. — Howard Zinn

But slave importation became illegal in 1808. — Howard Zinn

Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people. — Howard Zinn

the media, like the politicians, do not take note of rebellion until it is too large to be ignored. — Howard Zinn

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil ... — Howard Zinn

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time. — Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. — Alice Walker

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us — Howard Zinn

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism? — Howard Zinn

Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning. — Howard Zinn

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is. — Howard Zinn

[W]e're taught that if one person kills another person, that is murder; but if a government kills a hundred thousand persons, that is patriotism. — Howard Zinn

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation. — Howard Zinn

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won. — Howard Zinn

Ruling elites seem to have learned through the generations - consciously or not - that war makes them more secure against internal trouble. — Howard Zinn

New York blacks could not vote unless they owned $250 in property (a qualification not applied to whites). — Howard Zinn

Only one fear was greater than the fear of black rebellion in the new American colonies. — Howard Zinn

Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. — Howard Zinn

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about. — Howard Zinn

Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end. — Howard Zinn

Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold. — Howard Zinn

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. — Howard Zinn

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. — Howard Zinn

When in all the nations of the world the rule of law is the darling of the leaders and the plague of the people, we ought to begin to recognize this. — Howard Zinn

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world. — Howard Zinn

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people. — Howard Zinn

If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it. — Howard Zinn

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization. — Howard Zinn

Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them. — Howard Zinn

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power. — 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. — Howard Zinn

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. — Howard Zinn

Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers. — David Swanson

The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future. — Howard Zinn

When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress. — Howard Zinn

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it. — Howard Zinn

In war, good guys always become bad guys. — Howard Zinn

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens. — Howard Zinn

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is ... to tell the truth. — Howard Zinn

Our ethos is all that we currently hold to be true. It is what we act upon. It governs our manners, our business, and our politics. — Howard Zinn

Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?' — Howard Zinn

The future is an infinite succession of presents — Howard Zinn

will not hold ourselves bound to obey the laws in which we have no voice of representation. — Howard Zinn

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government. — Howard Zinn