Contact
Privacy
Book: A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present
Quotes of Book: A People's History of the
TOP TAGS :exclusionfamepainterautismwarmthfrancis-baconstar-warslestat

  1. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    The women tended the crops and took general charge of village affairs while the men were always hunting or fishing. And since they supplied the moccasins and food for warring expeditions, they had some control over military matters. As Gary B. Nash notes in his fascinating study of early America, Red, White, and Black: "Thus power was shared between the sexes and the European idea of male dominancy and female subordination in all things was conspicuously absent in Iroquois society."
    book-quote

  2. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    It was the new politics of ambiguity-speaking for the lower and middle classes to get their support in times of rapid growth and potential turmoil. The two-party system came into its own in this time. To give people a choice between two different parties and allow them, in a period of rebellion, to choose the slightly more democratic one was an ingenious mode of control. Like so much in the American system, it was not devilishly contrived by some master plotters; it developed naturally out of the needs of the situation.
    book-quote

  3. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    It was borrowed time anyway-the whole upper tenth of a nation living with the insouciance of a grand duc and the casualness of chorus girls.
    book-quote

  4. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    That April, the Senate had adopted the Thirteenth Amendment, declaring an end to slavery, and in January 1865, the House of Representatives followed.
    book-quote

  5. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought
    book-quote

  6. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. . .
    book-quote

  7. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    Racism was becoming more and more practical.
    book-quote

  8. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    grievances of the lowest classes mingled with
    book-quote

  9. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    Tyranny is Tyranny let it come from whom it may.
    book-quote

  10. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    Truman claimed was the figure given him
    book-quote

  11. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    Catholic Church, expelled all the Jews,
    book-quote

  12. Howard Zinn _ A People's History of the

    children forever.
    book-quote
Categories