Howard Zinn Quotes
Quotes
History“ When People don't understand that the government doesn't have their interest in mind, they are more susceptible to go to war.”
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History“One certain effect of warfare is to diminish freedom of expression.”
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History“I wonder how foreign policies of the United States would look like if we wiped out national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.”
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History“ ...It was not until Hersey's Hiroshima that I realized what bomber pilots do. ”
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History“ Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. ”
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History“ I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handled down the down to them from The White House, the media, textbooks, teachers, and preachers. ”
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History“ War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. ”
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History“ Dissent is the highest form of Patriotism. ”
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History“ Human beings are not machines, and however 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. ”
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History“ There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. ”
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History“ They didn't give their lives for their country! Their lives were taken away from them by their government. ”
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History“ But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is, to tell the truth. ”
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History“ The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is. ”
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History“ History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. ”
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History“ ...war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in its history. ”
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History“ Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. ”
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