Howard Zinn

"Is not nationalism..."

"A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions." Ursula K. Le Guin teapawt.org/melvillehouse/status/8…

"Our history runs deep with the stories of people who stand up, speak out, dig in, organize, connect, resist & alter the course of history."

"We need to assert our allegiance to humanity as a whole, to all living things, and not to any one nation."

"To live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

"Democracy is in dissent. Democracy is in resistance. Democracy does not come from the top. It comes from the bottom."

"We didn't want to hear the words of the White House. We wanted to hear the words of those picketing the White House."

"Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no gov't can suppress, a power than can transform the world."

"...to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."

"The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is."

"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience."

"If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates."

"We must respect the memory of the Jewish Holocaust by refusing to allow atrocities to take place now."

"We are always in need of radicals who are also lovable and so we would do well to remember Eugene Victor Debs."

"Even when we don't 'win' there is fun & fulfillment in the fact we have been involved with other good people in something worthwhile."

"We cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war, because they & the economic interests they represent benefit from war".

"Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens."

"It is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present."

"At certain points in history, governments find that all their power is futile against the power of an aroused citizenry."

"When one voice speaks out against the conventional wisdom & is recognized as speaking truth people are drawn out of their previous silence"