This statement was originally published in the Hindu on November 22, but since then one of the signatories, Susan George, has dissociated herself from it.

BY Others 24 November 2007

Whenever injustices have been remedied, wars halted, women and blacks and Native Americans given their due, it has been because "unimportant" people spoke up, organized, protested, and brought democracy alive.

BY Howard Zinn 16 November 2004

I am calling it "our" war on terrorism because I want to distinguish it from Bush's war on terrorism, and from Sharon's, and from Putin's.

BY Howard Zinn 20 October 2004

I wondered if I was seeing a phenomenon that recurs often in society--when one voice speaks out against the conventional wisdom, and is recognized as speaking truth, people are drawn out of their previous silence.

BY Howard Zinn 15 July 2004