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Topic·Red Scare✕clear

Speech · Political speech

I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.

Joseph McCarthy

1950

★ 6.9

Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

1954

★ 5.9

Congressional hearing

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?

J. Parnell Thomas

1947

★ 5.0

TV program · Science fiction (TV) · Science fiction

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

Narrator (Twilight Zone)

The Twilight Zone · 1960

★ 4.4

Speech · Political speech

McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Joseph McCarthy

1952

★ 3.7

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

Edward R. Murrow

1954

★ 3.6

That community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denuciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

1952

★ 3.5

There was bad faith and good, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice, selflessness and opportunism, wisdom and stupidity, good and bad on bath sides; and almost every individual involved, no matter where he stood, combined some or all of these antithetical qualities in his own person, in his own acts.... It will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

1970

★ 3.4

Congressional hearing

You are the un-Americans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

1956

★ 1.9

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we…remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment unpopular.

Edward R. Murrow

1954

★ 1.8