In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn. Howard Zinn More Quotes by Howard Zinn More Quotes From Howard Zinn I believe that it is preferable sometimes to have one candidate rather another candidate, while you understand that that is not the solution. Sometimes the lesser evil is not so lesser, so you want to ignore that, and you either do not vote or vote for third party as a protest against the party system. Howard Zinn party evil believe I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization. Howard Zinn anarchist obstacles principles I always emphasize the historic role of people of color in organizing and protesting to achieve justice. Howard Zinn color justice people The UN should arrange, as US forces leave, for an international group of peacekeepers and negotiators from the Arab countries to bring together Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, and work out a solution for self-governance that would give all three groups a share in political power. Simultaneously, the UN should arrange for shipments of food and medicine, from the United States and other countries, as well as engineers to help rebuild the country. Howard Zinn medicine self country It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity. Howard Zinn small-numbers humanity men There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more. Howard Zinn liars war school The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits. Howard Zinn resources academic college Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold. Howard Zinn slave names goes-on Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This feeling of wholeness can be experienced no matter what is wrong with your body. One part of your body, or many parts of your body, may be diseased or in pain or even missing, yet you can still cradle them in this experience of wholeness. - Jon Kabat Howard Zinn pain inspiration reality There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists through the ages: that people might cooperatively use the treasures of the earth to make life better for everyone, not just a few. Howard Zinn artist dream ideas There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means only to do good, and almost always does good, in the world, that it is the beacon of liberty and freedom. Howard Zinn liberty mean people Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die. Howard Zinn atonement use praying The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating ? - those are the things that determine what happens. Howard Zinn government office white Will Iraq be a democracy? The question is, 'Will America be a democracy?' Howard Zinn iraq democracy america Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders . . . . and millions have been killed because of this obedience . . . . Howard Zinn leader people world I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement. Howard Zinn groups trying people Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren. Howard Zinn memorial-day flower children The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side might) is to give one moral superiority over the other, and thus serve to perpetuate the horrors of our time. Howard Zinn bombers suicide giving We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation. Howard Zinn allegiance race needs The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies. Howard Zinn suffering long people
