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

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  • But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

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    Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.299, Haymarket Books

  • 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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  • Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

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    Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.410, 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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  • The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

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    Source: openvault.wgbh.org

  • If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

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    Howard Zinn (1990). “Declarations of Independence: Cross-examining American Ideology”, Perennial
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Howard Zinn

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