Howard Zinn Quotes

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Howard Zinn Quote: “You can’t be neutral on a moving train.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Historically, the most terrible things – war, genocide, and slavery – have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “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 Quote: “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “History is important. If you don’t know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything, and you have no way of checking up on it.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Education can, and should be, dangerous.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.”

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.”

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “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 Quote: “How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”

Howard Zinn Quote: “War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “The term ‘just war’ is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to deal with evil, tyranny and oppression without killing huge numbers of people.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “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 Quote: “Yes, we’re dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don’t want war. We don’t want capitalism. We want a decent society.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “The only way things will happen is if people get over the notion that they must see immediate success. If they get over that notion and persist, then they will see things happen before they even realize it.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “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 Quote: “The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Crosses and gallows – that deadly historic juxtaposition.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.”

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “George Orwell said, “Whoever controls the past controls the future,” by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.”

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “Music can be a distraction and an escape. Sometimes a welcome escape. You need it. But music can also serve a very important social function because music can do things that mere prose, mere ordinary political agitation can’t do.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “If you don’t know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can’t rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “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 Quote: “In war, good guys always become bad guys.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -that history is a protective armor against being misled.”

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past’s fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can’t we be a humanitarian superpower?”

Howard Zinn Quote: “War itself is the enemy of the human race.”

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “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 Quote: “Very important thing to keep in mind, that when justice comes and when injustices are remedied, they’re not remedied by the initiative of the national government or the politicians. They only respond to the power of social movements.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it’s control, kill us.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “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 Quote: “One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “I was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the blood or see those without limbs or eyes. It was not til I read Hersey’s Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Diverse audiences can be just as misled as homogenous audiences.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.”

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn’t come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “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 Quote: “Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?”

Howard Zinn Quote: “In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.”

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but “who is sitting in” – and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Sometimes it’s a short step from banning to burning.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “They didn’t give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.”

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

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “That’s generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don’t know what’s going on below. You don’t see the human consequences of what you’re doing.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn’t find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “The historian’s distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “The only hope lies in the fact that the American people – like people everywhere – are basically decent people with common sense.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely the path that is your life. – Jon Kabat.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.”

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

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “These people – the employed, the somewhat privileged – are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower classes. If they stop obeying, the system falls.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Group meditation according to Jon Kabat.”

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

Howard Zinn Quote: “We better rethink the position of the United States in the world and whether we want to be an empire. Being an empire puts all of us in jeopardy. The American Empire, while it was just wreaking havoc on other nations, didn’t bother us.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic interests, and that their Constitutions are intended to serve these interests.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Are terrorists going to be deterred – are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That’s what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.”

Howard Zinn Quote: “Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.”

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