Howard Zinn Quotes
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.
Zinn, Howard. The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy. Seven Stories Press, 1997, p. 370.
This quotation shows that “due process” was an important principle for the colonists long before the American Revolution and the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Rights. Connecticut and New York passed similar laws after Massachusetts.
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The two law enforcement officers had testified that they arrested demonstrators who had “come to break the law” and had not at that point broken any laws.
And let the sheriffs who have arrested them bring them before the justice without any other summons.
This assize is generally considered to be the first written specification of due process in English Common Law.
A case of systemic racial discrimination against a Bank of America subsidiary which she had initiated in 2008 had been resolved by the Bank paying over $200 million to the victims.
Bruce is one of the few American Comedians to so offend the political establishment that he was constantly legally harassed throughout his career. He was actually criminally convicted in New York for obscenity. In 2003 he was posthumously pardoned by the New York Governor, the first posthumous pardon in state history.
Some democratic cultures are very distrustful of government bureaucracies and prefer to resolve conflicts through the courts where the process in in general much more transparent. The U. S. is not the only example. Israel is even more litigious.
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.
