When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doin….

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 re….

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may..

Beyond the futility of armed force, and ultimately more important, is the fact that war in our time inevitably results in the indiscriminate killing ….

It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation….

Let's face a historical truth: we have never had a "free market", we have always had government intervention in the economy, and indeed that interven….

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..

The chief problem in historical honesty is not outright lying. It is omission or de-emphasis of important data. The definition of 'important', of cou….

History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But ….

There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means o….

Charles Beard warned us that governments-inc luding the government of the United States-are not neutral, that they represent the dominant economic in….

The mountain of history books under which we all stand leans so heavily in the other direction-so tremblingly respectful of states and statesmen and ….

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

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured..

In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities..

[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..

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

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

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?.

Scholars, who pride themselves on speaking their minds, often engage in a form of self-censorship which is called "realism." To be "realistic" in dea….

If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the ….