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Red Scare10 quotes
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 · 1950Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph Welch · 1954Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? — J. Parnell Thomas · 1947For 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) · 1960McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. — Edward R. Murrow · 1954All 10 quotes →American politics5 quotes
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 · 1950Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph Welch · 1954Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? — J. Parnell Thomas · 1947McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. — Edward R. Murrow · 1954Cold War5 quotes
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 · 1950Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph Welch · 1954Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? — J. Parnell Thomas · 1947McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. — Edward R. Murrow · 1954Communism3 quotes
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 · 1950McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled. — Joseph McCarthy · 1952No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. — Edward R. Murrow · 1954Dissent2 quotes
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. — Learned Hand · 1952We 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 · 1954Diversity of opinion1 quote
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. — Learned Hand · 1952McCarthyism1 quote
No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. — Edward R. Murrow · 1954Questioning authority1 quote
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. — Learned Hand · 1952Scapegoats1 quote
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) · 1960