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Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy it is absolutely essential to it.
Howard Zinn
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Howard Zinn
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 24
Died: 2010
Died: January 27
Film Director
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If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.
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While some multimillionaires started in poverty, most did not. A study of the origins of 303 textile, railroad and steel executives of the 1870s showed that 90 percent came from middle- or upper-class families. The Horatio Alger stories of rags to riches were true for a few men, but mostly a myth, and a useful myth for control.
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Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to an end, because he had to deal with the power of the anti-war movement as well as the power of the Vietnamese movement. I will vote, but always with a caution that voting is not crucial, and organizing is the important thing.
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When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.
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If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
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People who have no respect for human life or for freedom or justice have taken over this beautiful country of ours. It will be up to the American people to take it back.
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Education can, and should be, dangerous.
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Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.
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War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
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Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.
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I wonder how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own.
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Are terrorists going to be deterred - are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism.
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