498 Quotes by Howard Zinn

It’s a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn’t. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?

If you don’t know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

And Bernice Johnson, who organized the Albany Freedom Singers and was expelled from Albany State College for her determined involvement in the movement.

To hell with your courts, I know what justice is.

There is not a country in world history in which racism has been more important, for so long a time, as the United States.

And still, even from the cells of the condemned, the message was going out: the class war was still on in that supposedly classless society, the United States.

I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn’t find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements.

More than half the colonists who came to the North American shores in the colonial period came as servants.

If Chomsky says the educational system is an undemocratic system, you can say, well, you’re there, you have a position at MIT. Well, it’s perfectly attuned to the American system of control, a very sophisticated system of control that allows just enough dissidence so that those in power can point to the fact that the university is democratic but not enough dissidence to create a real danger to the system.