"One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country."

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Source : Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.632, Routledge

Howard Zinn

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“Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.”
“Whatever it is that you're passionate about... try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.”
“The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.”
“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”
“If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.”
“Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.”

Source : "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.
“Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice.”
“You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.”

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