Howard Zinn Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

• We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

  Howard Zinn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press
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  There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.118, South End Press

• Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, History

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.410, Seven Stories Press

• If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, Real, People

• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Expression

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.236, Seven Stories Press

• Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Compassion

  "Dying for the Government" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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