Howard Zinn Quotes


I don't think we can depend on Congress. In the American political system - we have been brought up to believe that the American political system works beautifully; it is democratic; Congress represents us; the President is elected, he represents us - it doesn't work that way.


Citations

Zinn, Howard. A Power Governments Cannot Suppress. City Lights Books, 2007.

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Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn
  • Born: August 24, 1922
  • Died: January 27, 2010
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Historian

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist thinker and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote over 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.