Howard Zinn Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.

  Howard Zinn

  Responsibility, Simple, Years

  "Changing Minds, One at a Time" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. May 10, 2005.

• We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.

  Howard Zinn

  Responsibility, Ideas, Long

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.684, Seven Stories Press

• I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.173, Beacon Press

• [Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

  Howard Zinn

  Children, Generations, Burning

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.646, Seven Stories Press

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