Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are filled with cause for rebellion, be taught that all is right as it is.
Howard ZinnAbout author
- Author's profession: Historian
- Nationality: american
- Born: December 7, 1922
- Died: January 27, 2010
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