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Howard Zinn: “History is important. If you don't know history it's as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything and you have no way of checking up on it.”

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Howard Zinn: “If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.”

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Howard Zinn: “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 reason -- that history is a protective armor against being misled.”

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Howard Zinn: “It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.”

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Howard Zinn: “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

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Howard Zinn: “Is there equality before the law? At every stage of the judicial process--facing the policeman, appearing in court, being freed on bond, being sentenced by the judge--the poor person is treated worse than the rich, the black treated worse than the white, the politically or personally odd character is treated worse than the orthodox.”

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Howard Zinn: “The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two major parties. The reality is that there is a much bigger conflict that the two parties jointly wage against large numbers of Americans who are represented by neither party and against powerless millions around the world.”

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Howard Zinn: “Representative government is closer to democracy than monarchy, and for this reason it has been hailed as one of the great political advances of modern times; yet, it is only a step in the direction of democracy, at its best.”

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Howard Zinn: “Presidental nominations and elections are more democratic than monarchical rule or the procedures of totalitarian states, but they are far from some reasonable expectation of democracy. The two major parties have a monopoly of presidential power, taking turns in the White House. The candidates of minority parties don't have a chance. They do not have access to the financial backing of the major parties, and there is not the semblance of equal attention in the mass media; it is only the two major candidates who have free access to prime time on national television.”

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Howard Zinn: “The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.”

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Howard Zinn: “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.”

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Howard Zinn: “The right to live one's life, in privacy and freedom, in whatever way one wants, so long as others are not harmed, should be a sacred principle in a democracy.”

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Howard Zinn: “When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.”

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Howard Zinn: “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”

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Howard Zinn: “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.”

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Howard Zinn: “One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.”

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Howard Zinn: “If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.”

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Howard Zinn: “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.”

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Howard Zinn: “I am willing to accept that there might be rare circumstances where applications of force might be effective,”

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Howard Zinn: “What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but 'who is sitting in' -- and who is marching outside the White House, pushing for change.”

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Howard Zinn: “People like Eugene Debs, Helen Keller, Emma Goldman, Jack London and Upton Sinclair were wonderful writers who joined the movement against war and injustice, against capitalism and corporate power. That was a very exciting period in American history.”

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Howard Zinn: “Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.”

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Howard Zinn: “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”

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Howard Zinn: “Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”

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Howard Zinn: “Historically, the most terrible things -- war, genocide, and slavery -- have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”

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Howard Zinn: “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”

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Howard Zinn: “The great danger for American democracy is not from the protesters. That democracy is too poorly realized for us to consider critics -- even rebels -- as the chief problem. Its fulfillment requires us all, living in an ossified system which sustains too much killing and too much selfishness, to join the protest.”

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Howard Zinn: “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”

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