In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.
When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are a victim of whatever the authorities tell yo… - Howard Zinn
When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are a victim of whatever the authorities tell yo…
- Howard Zinn
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. - Howard Zinn
Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of lead… - Howard Zinn
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of lead…
I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around … - Howard Zinn
I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around …
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 tran… - Howard Zinn
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 tran…
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. - Howard Zinn
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win. - Howard Zinn
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If w… - Howard Zinn
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If w…
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth. - Howard Zinn
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
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