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• Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

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  Use, Praying, Atonement

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• The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies.

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  Long, People, Suffering

  "Howard Zinn on Lessons Not Learned in Afghanistan" by Norman Stockwell, progressive.org. October 7, 2016.

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• The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.

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  Justice, Political, Support

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.8, Routledge

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• It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

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  Country, Military, Reading

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.103, Routledge

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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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  Names, Goes On, Slave

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.4, Routledge

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• Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This feeling of wholeness can be experienced no matter what is wrong with your body. One part of your body, or many parts of your body, may be diseased or in pain or even missing, yet you can still cradle them in this experience of wholeness. - Jon Kabat

  Howard Zinn

  Pain, Inspiration, Reality

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• The 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.

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  Powerful, United States, Paper

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it. It is a corrective to the sluggishness of "the proper channels," a way of breaking through passages blocked by tradition and prejudice. It is disruptive and troublesome, but it is a necessary disruption, a healthy troublesome.

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  Law, Healthy, Democracy

  Howard Zinn (1997). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.383, Seven Stories Press

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• We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example not from the military and political leaders shouting 'retaliate' and 'war' but from the doctors and nurses and firemen and policemen who have been saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts are not violence, but healing, and not vengeance, but compassion.

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  Military, War, Healing

  "Remembering 9/11: Howard Zinn on the "Old Way of Thinking" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. November 1, 2001.

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• The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.

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  Military, Moving, Jail

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.151, Beacon Press

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• The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

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  College, Academic, Resources

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• It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.

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  War, Government, Lesson Learned

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.425, Routledge

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• I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.

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  Fun, Want, Indulgence

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• Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

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  Men, Law, Heaven

  Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove (2011). “Voices of a People's History of the United States”, p.182, Seven Stories Press

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• When a nation issues ultimatums, it leaves no room for compromise and ensures that war will continue.

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  War, Issues, Rooms

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.29, Seven Stories Press

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

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  Yesterday, Born, Knows

  "Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear the moral reason is for the war in which one side looks better than the other, by the time the war ends both sides have been engaged in evil.

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  War, Evil, Looks

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.108, Haymarket Books

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• Now I have been studying very closely what happens every day in the courts in Boston, Massachusetts. You would be astounded--maybe you wouldn't, maybe you have been around, maybe you have lived, maybe you have thought, maybe you have been hit--at how the daily rounds of injustice make their way through this marvelous thing that we call "due process.

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  Boston, Would Be, Massachusetts

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.427, Seven Stories Press

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• There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

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  Military, Color, People

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.687, Routledge

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• We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

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  Brutality, Transfers, Our Time

  Howard Zinn (2011). “Howard Zinn on History”, p.221, Seven Stories Press

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• Crosses and gallows - that deadly historic juxtaposition.

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  Juxtaposition, Historic, Crosses

  Howard Zinn, Donaldo Macedo (2016). “Howard Zinn on Democratic Education”, p.82, Routledge

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• Group meditation according to Jon Kabat

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  Meditation, Groups, Mental Health

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• The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.

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  Writing, Doe, Found

  Howard Zinn (2012). “The Politics of History”, p.476, eBookIt.com

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• There was an idea in the air, becoming clearer and stronger, an idea not just in the theories of Karl Marx but in the dreams of writers and artists through the ages: that people might cooperatively use the treasures of the earth to make life better for everyone, not just a few.

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  Dream, Artist, Ideas

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.339, Routledge

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• The First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights in the United States Constitution were being violated in Albany again and again - freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the equal protection of the laws - I could count at least 30 such violations. Yet the president, sworn to uphold the Constitution, and all the agencies of the United States government at his disposal, were nowhere to be seen.

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  Agency, Rights, Government

  "You Can't Be Neutral on A Moving Train". Book by Howard Zinn (Ch. 4: "My Name is Freedom": Albany, Georgia), 1994.

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