Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinnwas an American historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than twenty books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People′s History of the United States...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth24 August 1922
CountryUnited States of America
struggle fighting winning
If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.
war possibility thousand
In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.
nice people dying
Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.
race needs allegiance
...We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
country military reading
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.
believe direct-action uprising
Each situation has to be evaluated separately, for all are different. In general, I believe in non-violent direct action, which involve organizing large numbers of people, whereas too often violent uprisings are the product of a small group. If enough people are organized, violence can be minimized in bringing about social change.
children war our-time
War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
military color people
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.
war fighting tyrants
When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.
country war taken
They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
believe thinking justice
I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.
government historical religion
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 intervention has been welcomed by the captains of finance and industry. They had no quarrel with "big government" when it served their needs.
being-yourself knowing meditation
Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely the path that is your life. - Jon Kabat
writing doe found
The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.