“The serious Sylvia was agonizing over the execution of the Rosenbergs and McCarthyism; others were delighting to dream over trousseau lingerie at… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“American foreign policy was a mirror image of Russian foreign policy: whatever the Russians did, we did in reverse. American domestic policies… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
During McCarthyism, teachers feared for their jobs if they belonged to a left-wing group. Today teachers fear for their jobs if they… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“Whenever the communists are under fire, it [the term "red-baiter"] has served to divert attention from the subject matter to futile discussion… — Eugene Lyons Copy Share Image
As a human being with notoriety and a big mouth, I've felt most threatened during the first Bush Administration. Whenever there's a… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
In the early 50s in the US, there was what was called McCarthyism and the only reason it succeeded was that there… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There are significant analogues between the American fear of Communism during the McCarthy era and the American fear of Islam at the… — Ben Daniel Copy Share Image
“What was new to our ears these days, and thrilling to hear, was the steadiness and justice of those who spoke, the… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“Of the things I had not known when I started out, I think the most important was the degree to which the… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations [...] we cannot and should not resort to the methods… — Victor Kravchenko Copy Share Image
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
Senator; you've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency? — Joseph N. Welch Copy Share Image
“[we are] going to continue to fight communism. Now I am going to tell you how we are not going to fight… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“There are today many Communists in America. They are everywhere -- in factories, offices, butcher stores, on street corners, in private businesses.… — J. Howard McGrath Copy Share Image
I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
“Perhaps some guest editors would keep Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in their peripheral vision. But Sylvia recognized their execution as the most… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
“The last time that I consciously wrote anything to 'save the honor of the Left', as I rather pompously put it, was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
