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“America is no longer a free country, in the old sense; and liberty is, increasingly, a mere rhetorical figure….The only way in which an American citizen who is really interested in all the social and political problems of his country can preserve any freedom of expression, is to choose the mob that is most sympathetic to him, and abide under the shadow of that mob.”
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Harper's Magazine, 1922
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Harper's Magazine, 1922
“We allow the beginning of a feud that is racial and religious, we justify the establishment of a quarrel that leads to group formation, make civil war upon each other in the name of racial and religious bigotry. We teach to our young men and young women the dangerous doctrine that violence and hatred are justifiable, that mob law is consistent with freedom, that lawlessness is to be met by lawlessness, and that self appointed guardians of other people’s rights may set themselves above the sacred duty of constitutional authority.”
Kansas Governor William Allen White, October 28, 1922
Kansas Governor William Allen White, October 28, 1922
"And then, for political background, the Republicans have been trying vainly to find an issue on which to make a bid for the control of the Congress for next year. They tried "statism." They tried "welfare state." They tried "socialism." And there are a certain number of members of the Republican Party who are trying to dig up that old malodorous dead horse called "isolationism." And in order to do that, they are perfectly willing to sabotage the bipartisan foreign policy of the United States."
-- President Harry Truman, March 30, 1950
-- President Harry Truman, March 30, 1950
PSA: Think before you point and laugh; not all of your neighbors are "weird" or "crazy"!
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