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Howard Zinn

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


— Howard Zinn


#politics #process #beauty

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


— Howard Zinn


#moral-conflict #education

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?


— Howard Zinn


#equality #faith #government #history #equality

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.


— Howard Zinn


#dissent #form #highest #highest form

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


#government #interests #mind #more #people

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


— Howard Zinn


#follows #foreign #foreign policy #hangs #independence

War itself is the enemy of the human race.


— Howard Zinn


#human #human race #itself #race #war

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.


— Howard Zinn


#diminish #effect #expression #freedom #freedom of expression

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


— Howard Zinn


#been #civilized #humane #inhumane #nation

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


— Howard Zinn


#given #gods #had #intended #people






About Howard Zinn

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Did you know about Howard Zinn?

People in the anti-war movement used it. He had been scheduled to speak at the Santa Monica Museum of Art for an event titled "A Collection of Ideas. in 1951.

Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States. Howard Zinn (August 24 1922 – January 27 2010) was an American academic historian author playwright and social activist. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements as well as of the labor history of the United States.

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