Quotes About Mccarthyism

#1. The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

Emanuel Celler

#2. The serious Sylvia was agonizing over the execution of the Rosenbergs and McCarthyism; others were delighting to dream over trousseau lingerie at Vanity Fair's showroom.

Elizabeth Winder

#3. Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.

Ken Kesey

#4. One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties.

Pete Seeger

#5. Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about 'McCarthyism.'

Ann Coulter

#6. McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled.

Joseph R. McCarthy

#7. During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they hug a crying child. As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.

Carol Tavris

#8. Political Correctness is inverted McCarthyism.

Dennis Miller

#9. I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America ... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

Amiri Baraka

#10. Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.

Nicholas Sparks

#11. Our neighbors turned to stare at us, because Miles Richter laughing was one of those things that the Mayans had predicted would signal the end of the world. He wasn't particularly loud about it, but it was Miles laughing, a sound no mortal had ever heard before.

Francesca Zappia

#12. Perhaps some guest editors would keep Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in their peripheral vision. But Sylvia recognized their execution as the most extreme and gruesome example of McCarthy's red-baiting paranoia.

Elizabeth Winder

#13. Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

Jim Rohn

#14. We'll beat you yet, you cold-blooded, censored son of a bowdlerized, unprintably expurgated deletion!

David R. Palmer

#15. 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 Kingsolver

#16. The barbarians come out at night.

J.M. Coetzee

#17. Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms ... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#18. Never complain, never explain personal motto of

Kerry Packer

#19. 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 Daniel

#20. 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 Kravchenko

#21. Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion of personal motives, the critic's private life and other deliberate tricks of befuddlement.

Eugene Lyons

#22. Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

Martha Gellhorn

#23. School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?

Billie Joe Armstrong