January 2010
115 posts
“One of the effects of nationalist thinking is a loss of a sense of proportion....”
– Howard Zinn (via azspot)
“I would encourage people to look around them in their community and find an...”
– Howard Zinn (via marthaq) (via letstalkequality)
“The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for...”
– Howard Zinn
“The pretense in disputed elections is that the great conflict is between the two...”
– Howard Zinn
“In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far,...”
– Howard Zinn
“We don’t have to engage in grand,
heroic actions to participate
in the...”
– Howard Zinn
“My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn...”
– Howard Zinn, A People’s History: 1492 to the Present
“Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country,...”
– Howard Zinn
“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely...”
– Howard Zinn
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our...”
– Howard Zinn
“How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
– Howard Zinn
“In war, good guys always become bad guys.”
– Howard Zinn
“I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as...”
– Howard Zinn
“If you don’t know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.”
– Howard Zinn
“What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but “who is...”
– Howard Zinn
“I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped...”
– Howard Zinn
“The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political...”
– Howard Zinn
“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have...”
– Howard Zinn
“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the...”
– Howard Zinn
“When people don’t understand that the government doesn’t have their...”
– Howard Zinn
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
– Howard Zinn
“War itself is the enemy of the human race.”
– Howard Zinn
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.”
– Howard Zinn
“I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and...”
– Howard Zinn
On the death of Howard Zinn
I would just like to take the time to acknowledge the fact that a great man has died today. We are all better because he was alive and fearlessly spoke out in defense of the people and for what is right, not just popular. We will all miss him very much.
“The people in power will not disappear voluntarily; giving flowers to the cops...”
– William S. Burroughs (via bradicalmang)
“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil,...”
– Albert Einstein
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the...”
– Margaret Mead
“After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct...”
– Tim Wise
“What whites have rarely had to think about—because being the dominant group, we...”
– Tim Wise (White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son)
“The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the...”
– Tim Wise (White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son)
“The dominant group is damaged even as it receives huge benefits. You pay for the...”
– Tim Wise
“The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.”
– Tim Wise
“Racism is man’s gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a...”
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he...”
– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.”
– Desmond Tutu
“I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the...”
– Cissy Farenthold
“Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination.”
– ~Author Unknown
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who...”
– Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are...”
– Jesse Jackson
“You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.”
– Fred Hampton
“Let me just say: Peace to you, if you’re willing to fight for it.”
– Fred Hampton
“I believe I’m going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe...”
– Fred Hampton
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars;...”
– Henry Louis Mencken
“Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or...”
– Ruth Benedict
“The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts...”
– Mark Twain
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually...”
– HL Menckn
“The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those...”
– Charles Darwin
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our...”
– Abraham Lincoln
“A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.”
– Gotthold Ephraim Lessing