Howard Zinn Quotes - Page 3

• Because of the control of the media by corporate wealth, the discovery of truth depends on an alternative media, such as small radio stations, networks, programs. Also, alternative newspapers, which exist all over the country. Also, cable TV programs, which are not dependent on commercial advertising. Also, the internet, which can reach millions of people by-passing the conventional media.

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  Country, Discovery, Media

  "Habla Zinn". Entrevista con Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. 19 de abril de 2008.

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• Hoy, en Estados Unidos, la Declaración de Independencia cuelga de las paredes de las aulas, pero la política exterior sigue a Maquiavelo.

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  Wall, Independence, Estados Unidos

  Howard Zinn (2001). "Howard Zinn on War", p.127, Seven Stories Press

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• The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity.

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  Law, People, Support

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.99, Routledge

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• To ward off alienation and gloom, it is only necessary to remember the unremembered heroes of the past, and to look around us for the unnoticed heroes of the present.

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  Hero, Past, Looks

  Howard Zinn, Dean Birkenkamp, Wanda Rhudy (2016). “Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn”, p.13, Routledge

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• La historia es instructiva. Y lo que sugiere a la gente es que incluso si hacen pequeñas cosas, si caminan en la línea de piquete, si se unen a una vigilia, si escriben una carta a su periódico local. Cualquier cosa que hagan, por pequeña que sea, se convierte en parte de un flujo de energía mucho mayor. Y cuando suficientes personas hacen suficientes cosas, por pequeñas que sean, se produce el cambio.

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  Escritura, personas, energía

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• Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals the fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such as world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.

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  Country, Jobs, Sex

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• Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests – war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism – and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.

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  Guerra, Mudanza, Media

  Howard Zinn (2009). “Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• No está bien responder al terrorismo aterrorizando a otras personas. Y además, no va a servir de nada. Entonces podrías decir: "Sí, es aterrorizar a la gente, pero merece la pena hacerlo porque acabará con el terrorismo". Pero, ¿cuánto sentido común hace falta para saber que no se puede acabar con el terrorismo lanzando bombas indiscriminadamente?

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  Gente, Sentido Común, Doe

  Howard Zinn (2011). "Terrorismo y guerra", p.9, Seven Stories Press.

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• War is by definition the indiscriminate killing of huge numbers of people for ends that are uncertain. Think about means and ends, and apply it to war. The means are horrible, certainly. The ends, uncertain. That alone should make you hesitate. . . . We are smart in so many ways. Surely, we should be able to understand that in between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.

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  War, Smart, Mean

  "Untold Truths About the American Revolution" by Howard Zinn, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 20, 2009.

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• La disidencia es la forma más elevada de patriotismo.

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  Patriotismo, Mob Rule, Forma

  "La disidencia en pos de la igualdad, la vida, la libertad y la felicidad: Una entrevista con la historiadora Howard Zinn". Entrevista con Sharon Basco, 3 th Of July de 2002.

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• Nunca hemos rectificado nuestras injusticias desde arriba, desde el presidente o el Congreso, o el Tribunal Supremo, no importa lo que aprendimos en la escuela secundaria sobre cómo tenemos tres ramas de gobierno, y tenemos controles y equilibrios, y qué sistema tan encantador. No. Los cambios, los cambios importantes que hemos tenido en la historia, no han venido de esas tres ramas del gobierno. Han reaccionado a los movimientos sociales.

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  School, Government, Lovely

  "Howard Zinn Talks to Social Studies Teachers". Speech at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Houston, zinnedproject.org. November 16, 2008.

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• Las mayorías pueden equivocarse, las mayorías pueden anular los derechos de las minorías. Si las mayorías gobernaran, aún podríamos tener esclavitud. El 80% de la población esclavizó al 20% de la población. Mientras gobierne la mayoría, eso está bien. Esa es una noción muy errónea de lo que es la democracia. La democracia tiene que tener en cuenta varias cosas: las necesidades proporcionadas de la gente, no sólo las necesidades de la mayoría, sino también las de la minoría. La mayoría, especialmente en sociedades donde los medios de comunicación manipulan la opinión pública, puede estar totalmente equivocada y ser malvada. La gente tiene que actuar según su conciencia y no por mayoría.

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  Running, Democracies Have, Rights

  "Rebeldes contra la tiranía". Entrevista con Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. 12 de mayo de 2008.

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• La historia es importante. Si no conoces la historia es como si hubieras nacido ayer. Y si naciste ayer, cualquiera que esté en una posición de poder puede decirte cualquier cosa, y no tienes forma de comprobarlo.

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  Posicion De Poder, Ayer, Importante

  "Howard Zinn: No se puede ser neutral en un tren en marcha". Documental, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• El futuro es una sucesión infinita de presentes.

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  Future, Compassion, Infinite

  Howard Zinn (2010). "No se puede ser neutral en un tren en marcha: A Personal History of Our Times", p.208, Beacon Press

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• Lo que tenemos es una forma más sofisticada de imperialismo, que es económico. Pero al acecho, siempre lista para actuar, está una fuerza armada.

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  Sofisticado, Imperialismo, Económico

  Fuente: bad.eserver.org

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• Dado que la propia guerra es la forma más extrema de terrorismo, una guerra contra el terrorismo es profundamente contradictoria.

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  Guerra, Yo, Terrorismo

  Howard Zinn (2012). "La histórica promesa incumplida", p.153, City Lights Publishers.

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• History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But knowing a bit of history--while it would not absolutely prove the government was lying in a given instance--might make you skeptical, lead you to ask questions, make it more likely that you would find out the truth.

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  Lying, Past, Government

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• But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

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  Powerful, Lying, Historical

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.162, Beacon Press

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• One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression. Patriotism becomes the order of the day, and those who question the war are seen as traitors, to be silenced and imprisoned.

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  War, Expression, Order

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.171, Seven Stories Press

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• A veces, de la prohibición a la quema hay un paso muy corto.

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  Quemar, Pasos, A Veces

  Entrevista con Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. 10 de enero de 2001.

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• People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.

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  Gente, Debería

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• I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.

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  Guerra, Números, Gente

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

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• We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

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  Race, Needs, Allegiance

  "Howard Zinn's July 4th Wisdom" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. July 4, 2006.

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• Richard 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.

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  War, Evil, Voting

  "Rebeldes contra la tiranía". Entrevista con Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. 12 de mayo de 2008.

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• The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

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  Violence, Obedience, Our Time

  Fuente: openvault.wgbh.org

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