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  • We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we learned in junior high school about how we have three branches of government, and we have checks and balances, and what a lovely system. No. The changes, important changes that we've had in history, have not come from those three branches of government. They have reacted to social movements.

    "Howard Zinn Talks to Social Studies Teachers". Speech at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in Houston, zinnedproject.org. November 16, 2008.