“No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“During the early 1950s the hangman operating with the cold war troops was McCarthyism. For years it decimated social organizations, throttled free… — Martin Luther King Jr 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
My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved… — Amiri Baraka 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
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
McCarthyism and Trumpism are very different. They stand for very different things, but the technique of the big lie, smearing and telling… — Jake Tapper 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
“He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and… — Barack Obama 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
“Most of them don't know what communism is, could not pick it out of a lineup. They only know what anticommunism is.… — Barbara Kingsolver 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
As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
The junior Senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatred of uninformed and credulous people… — J. William Fulbright 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
Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
So much of the bitterness that the term 'McCarthyism' evokes refers to the probe begun in New Jersey in the summer of… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
“During the notorious McCarthy anti-Communist witch-hunt in the United States in the 1950s, popular hysteria could be whipped up with amazing ease.… — Phil Mason 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
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![“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.” quote by Eugene Lyons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/294/eugene-lyons-96062_communism_whenever-the-communists-are-under-fire-i_449530.jpg)
![“[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…” quote by Harry S. Truman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/299/harry-s-truman-898_cold-war_we-are-going-to-continue-to-fight-commun_1590230.jpg)
