“We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep into our own history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes which were for the moment unpopular.
“This is no time for men who oppose Senator [Joe] McCarthy’s methods to keep silent. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result.”
— Edward R. Murrow, 1954
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Very uplifting. Thank you for posting this.
Ran across your website via Google. Easily my favorite Murrow quote of all time, but did the photo accompanying it have to be from Person to Person, Murrow’s least favorite show–the one that he did so he could do See It Now?