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Howard Zinn Quotes
«Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
| About:
Dissent,
Patriotism
| Keywords:
dissent, dissenting, dissents, highest, patriotism
«There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
| About:
Politics,
War
| Keywords:
cover, covered up, cover for, cover up, flag, flagging, Flag of, innocent, innocents, innocent of, killing, killings, large, On the Cover, shame, shamed, shames, shaming
«If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
| About:
Funny,
Politics
| Keywords:
candidates, intended, vote
«Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
humane, inhumane, uncivilized
«We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
| About:
Decision,
Politicians,
War
| Keywords:
conjure, conjured, conjures, conjure up, conjuring, go to war, indiscriminate, innocents, In Our Time, media
«In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.»
«If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
| Keywords:
charge, corporate, dominate, executives, Executive power, in charge, owners, patrol, patrolling, patrols, press, soldiers, The Streets
«(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands»
Author: Howard Zinn
(Author, Historian, Political activist, Professor)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
fatherland, Fatherlands, motherland, Motherlands, nationalism, veneration
«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 as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.»