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People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.

Howard Zinn

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Howard Zinn
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 24
Died: 2010
Died: January 27
Film Director
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Labor Historian
Pacifist
Peace Activist
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They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.
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The only hope lies in the fact that the American people - like people everywhere - are basically decent people with common sense.
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But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
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I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.
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I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.
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I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning. To play, to act, is to create at least a possibility of changing the world.
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I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.
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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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Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders . . . . and millions have been killed because of this obedience . . . .
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Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
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