Howard Zinn Quotes About Children

• Tenemos que decidir que no iremos a la guerra, sea cual sea la razón que conjuren los políticos o los medios de comunicación, porque la guerra en nuestro tiempo es siempre indiscriminada, una guerra contra inocentes, una guerra contra niños.

  Howard Zinn

  Tiempo, Niños, Guerra

  "La vieja forma de pensar". The Progressive, noviembre de 2001.

• Memorial Day should be a day for putting flowers on graves and planting trees. Also, for destroying the weapons of death that endanger us more than they protect us, that waste our resources and threaten our children and grandchildren.

  Howard Zinn

  Memorial Day, Children, Flower

  Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.97, Seven Stories Press

• Me pregunto cómo sería la política exterior de Estados Unidos si elimináramos las fronteras nacionales del mundo, al menos en nuestras mentes, y pensáramos en todos los niños del mundo como si fueran nuestros.

  Howard Zinn

  Niños, Mente, Estados Unidos

  Howard Zinn (2014). "A People's History of the United States", p.606, Pan Macmillan.

• The film's title You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. comes from something I used to say in teaching my students "This is not going to be a neutral class." The world is already moving in certain directions and wars are going on and children are going hungry. Terrible things are happening. And so to be neutral in a situation like this is to collaborate with whatever is going on. And I don't want to collaborate with the world as it is. I want to intrude myself. I want to participate in changing the direction of things. So that's the origin of the title.

  Howard Zinn

  Niños, Guerra, Mudanza

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• I did not feel very patriotic. I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Children, Military

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• The stories coming out of Iraq everyday - the violence, the chaos, the deaths of Americans, the deaths of Iraqis... Of course the deaths of Iraqis are not played up as much. But when they count the corpses they see women and children. We are constantly killing the people who are suspected of something. Now, in the United States or under any decent system of justice, you don't kill people on suspicion. That's what you do when you bomb a house because there are suspected leaders there. But we've been doing that again and again and the result has been a toll of thousands of civilians.

  Howard Zinn

  Children, People, Justice

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

  Howard Zinn

  Children, War, Our Time

  Howard Zinn, Dean Birkenkamp, Wanda Rhudy (2016). “Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn”, p.36, Routledge

• [Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

  Howard Zinn

  Children, Generations, Burning

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.646, Seven Stories Press

• I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.

  Howard Zinn

  Country, Children, Military

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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