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Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving

Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria.

Howard Zinn
Country, Military, Home
Howard Zinn (2011). “Terrorism and War”, p.38, Seven Stories Press

With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary.

Howard Zinn
Military, War, Smart
Howard Zinn (2001). “Howard Zinn on War”, p.51, Seven Stories Press

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

Howard Zinn
Military, Humanitarian, Superpower
Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.238, Haymarket Books

I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.

Howard Zinn
Military, Believe, People
"Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.

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
Source: www.guernicamag.com

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
Source: www.guernicamag.com

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

Howard Zinn
Country, Military, Reading
Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.103, Routledge

We cannot be secure by limiting our liberties, as some of our political leaders are demanding, but only by expanding themWe should take our example not from the military and political leaders shouting 'retaliate' and 'war' but from the doctors and nurses and firemen and policemen who have been saving lives in the midst of mayhem, whose first thoughts are not violence, but healing, and not vengeance, but compassion.

Howard Zinn
Military, War, Healing
"Remembering 9/11: Howard Zinn on the "Old Way of Thinking" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. November 1, 2001.

The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.

Howard Zinn
Military, Moving, Jail
Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.151, Beacon Press

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

Howard Zinn
Military, Color, People
Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.687, Routledge

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