Howard Zinn Quotes About Social Justice

Quotes about: Social Justice

• If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.

  Howard Zinn

  Struggle, Fighting, Winning

• The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.

  Howard Zinn

  Justice, Political, Support

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.8, Routledge

• I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.173, Beacon Press

• What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Justice, Desire

  Source: facpub.stjohns.edu

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