Howard Zinn Quotes
We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
Zinn, Howard. Howard Zinn on War. Seven Stories Press, 2001.
He served as a General in both the French and Russian Armies
This is a particularly important quotation about the Civil War. General Sherman is usually credited with the idea of rapid, extensive warfare causing surrender and an end to war. (To some today even he is blamed for this doctrine.) However, the basis of this was in the code of the United States Army that was issued to Sherman and all other officers and approved by the General Staff and President Lincoln. Sherman, was probably the first military officer in modern history to actually implement such a policy but he did not originate it.
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.
