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Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than twenty books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People?s History of the United States.

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The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being vio ...

If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags ...

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, i ...

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easi ...

The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex ...

The really critical thing isn't who's sitting in he White House, but who is sitting in the streets, ...

Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murd ...

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful co ...

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the ...

Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to a ...

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the midd ...

Education can, and should be, dangerous.