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I try to tell each group that it is not alone, and that the very people who are disheartened by the absence of a national movement are themselves proof of the potential for such a movement.
Howard Zinn
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Howard Zinn
Age: 87 †
Born: 1922
Born: August 24
Died: 2010
Died: January 27
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Sometimes it's a short step from banning to burning.
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When we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress.
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Again and again, Americans have voted for a president to keep them out of a war, only to see the peace candidate elected who then brings the nation into war.
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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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Even if you assume presidents were democratically elected they still have no right to keep secrets from the American people.
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I don't think we can depend on Congress. In the American political system - we have been brought up to believe that the American political system works beautifully it is democratic Congress represents us the President is elected, he represents us - it doesn't work that way.
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If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
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Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.
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One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.
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Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
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