"Original Zinn" by Howard Zinn with David Barsamian

A book subtitled "Conversations on History and Politics". (If you don't own a copy of "The People's History of the United States 1492- Present", then you really really should get one.) The following are some "Original Zinn" quotes from the text or people referred to in the text:

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Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
- Mark Twain

Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number —
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you —
Ye are many — they are few.
- Percy Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy" - Written in 1819 after 11 demonstrators against the nation's economic disparities were killed and hundreds wounded by British troops in Manchester.

War is the health of the State. It automatically sets in motion throughout society those irresistable forces for uniformity, for passionate cooperation with the Government in coercing into obedience the minority groups and individuals which lack the larger herd sense...the nation in war-time attains a uniformity of feeling, a hierarchy of values culminating at the undisputed apex of the State ideal, which could not possibly be produced through any other agency than war...The State is intimately connected with war, for it is the organization of the collective community when it acts in a political manner, and to act in a political manner towards a rival group has meant, throughout all history - war...
- Randolph Bourne

If fascism ever comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag.
- Huey P. Long, "The Kingfish", Louisiana governor - Assassinated 9/10/35

Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war.
- Martin Luther King's speech at Riverside Church in NYC, April 4, 1967 denouncing the war in Vietnam. He was assassinated exactly one year later.

In the original version of "This Land Is Your Land" Woody Guthrie protested class inequality with the verse:

In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me.
- Woody Guthrie's famous "This Land is Your Land" was written in 1940, but the lyrics were often changed in future decades in order to suppress any socialist themes.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
- John Kerry's Testimony before subcommittees of the U.S. Senate, April, 1971