David

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.”
― Howard Zinn

“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
― Howard Zinn

“There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.”
― Howard Zinn

“I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times