Quotes by : Howard Zinn

What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor--inculcated from childhood on by....

The government is an artificial creation, established by the people to defend everyone's equal right....

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

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government,....

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

I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an....

We will not know unless we begin.

I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak,....