"No matter what the cause, even though it……" — John T. Flynn
"No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be no lack of poets and preachers and essayists and philosophers to invent the necessary reasons and gild the infamy with righteousness. To this righteousness there is, of course, never an adequate reply. Thus a war to end poverty becomes an unanswerable enterprise. For who can decently be for poverty? To even debate whether the war will end poverty becomes an exhibition of ugly pragmatism and the sign of an ignoble mind."
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John T. Flynn
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28 Quotes by John T. Flynn
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But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form.
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Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.
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Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans.
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I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril…
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The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of…
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When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of…
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons…
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