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In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.

Howard Zinn
Wall, Independence, United States
Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.127, Seven Stories Press

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

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America, Political, Independence
Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world.

Howard Zinn
Government, People, Independence
Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.682, Routledge

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