Howard Zinn Quotes
When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.
The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.
When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
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.
I had volunteered for the Air Force and was an enthusiastic bombardier. While dropping bombs on Europe, I generally didn't understand what I was doing.
Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.
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.
The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.
We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and the economic interests they represent benefit from war.
So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.
We need to expose the motives of our political leaders, point out their connections to corporate power, show how huge profits are being made out of death and suffering.
