Quotes by : Howard Zinn

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

Today everybody is talking about the fact that we live in one world; because of globalization, we are....

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live,....

The essential ingredients of these struggles for justice are human beings who, if only for a moment,....

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

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination,....

How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of....

There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common....

Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that....

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.