Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.
Howard ZinnBefore God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
Howard ZinnI didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.
Howard ZinnUse the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.
Howard ZinnRichard 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.
Howard ZinnThe inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States.
Howard Zinn