Howard Zinn Quotes About Peace
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There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
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Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
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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.
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One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression.
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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.
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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?
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