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  • Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.

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  • You can't be neutral on a moving train.

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    Howard Zinn (1999). “Marx in Soho: A Play on History”, p.57, South End Press

  • 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.

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  • The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

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

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

  • Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

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  • Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

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    Howard Zinn (1997). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.383, Seven Stories Press

  • 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 . . . .

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  • Throughout American history, the political leaders have always exhorted the American people to be nice and quiet and leave things to them. But when very serious evils confronted the American people, they had to go beyond the Congressmen and Senators, and they had to commit civil disobedience and they had even to break the law.

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    Source: openvault.wgbh.org
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Howard Zinn

  • Born: August 24, 1922
  • Died: January 27, 2010
  • Occupation: Historian
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