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 More Quotes by Howard Zinn More Quotes From Howard Zinn We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time. Howard Zinn transfers our-time brutality Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hit--at how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call "due process. Howard Zinn massachusetts boston would-be The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States. Howard Zinn united-states powerful paper The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen. Howard Zinn agency government rights Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition. Howard Zinn juxtaposition historic crosses Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity? Howard Zinn compassion war peace When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue. Howard Zinn issues war rooms I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence. Howard Zinn indulgence want fun [Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands. Howard Zinn burning generations children In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities. Howard Zinn possibility thousand war 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 Howard Zinn being-yourself knowing meditation There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States. Howard Zinn government profound people Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower? Howard Zinn superpower humanitarian military It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control. Howard Zinn lesson-learned government war 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. Howard Zinn found doe writing It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation, a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor. Howard Zinn monopoly class world The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual. Howard Zinn support political justice What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear the moral reason is for the war in which one side looks better than the other, by the time the war ends both sides have been engaged in evil. Howard Zinn evil war looks Group meditation according to Jon Kabat Howard Zinn mental-health groups meditation Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man? Howard Zinn law men heaven
