I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms employed by the Communists.
Victor KravchenkoTags: united-states communism soviet-union communists mccarthyism
The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it no higher) of Clinton. I used leftist categories to measure him, in other words, and to show how idiotic was the belief that he was a liberal's champion. Again, more leftists than you might think were on my side or in my corner, and the book was published by Verso, which is the publishing arm of the New Left Review. However, if a near-majority of leftists and liberals choose to think that Clinton was the target of a witch-hunt and the victim of 'sexual McCarthyism', an Arkansan Alger Hiss in other words, you become weary of debating on their terms and leave them to make the best of it.
Christopher HitchensTags: sex liberalism corruption cowardice delusion debate idiocy bill-clinton leftism arkansas impeachment-of-bill-clinton mccarthyism lewinsky-scandal witch-hunt alger-hiss new-left-review verso-books
In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom; for our Constitution and the due processes of our laws; and for the right to differ in ideas, religion and politics. I am convinced that in your zeal to fight against our enemies, you, too, have forgotten what you are fighting for.
Julia ChildTags: politics history constitution julia-child mccarthyism politics-of-the-united-states
[we are] going to continue to fight communism. Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight communism. We are not going to transform our fine FBI into a Gestapo secret police. That is what some people would like to do. We are not going to try to control what our people read and say and think. We are not going to turn the United States into a right-wing totalitarian country in order to deal with a left-wing totalitarian threat.
Harry TrumanTags: cold-war mccarthyism
There are significant analogues between the American fear of Communism during the McCarthy era and the American fear of Islam at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Ben DanielTags: mccarthyism
No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. MurrowTags: politics history tyranny controversy terrorism treason subversion disloyalty mccarthyism joseph-mccarthy red-scare
Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is. The two are practically unrelated.
Barbara KingsolverTags: barbara-kingsolver communism mccarthyism the-lacuna anticommunism dies-committee
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