Quotes by : Howard Zinn

Against the claims of a violent "human nature" there is enormous historical evidence that people, when....

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy....

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit....

I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.....

I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing....

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be....

We must recognize that we cannot depend on the governments of the world to abolish war because they and....

Slavery was immensely profitable to some masters. James Madison told a British visitor shortly after....

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests....

In his book The African Slave Trade, Basil Davidson contrasts law and in the Congo in the early 16th....