Roger Nash Baldwin quotes

Roger Nash Baldwin quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”
-- Roger Nash Baldwin

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“I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.”
-- Roger Nash Baldwin

#People Quotes #Justice Quotes #Wells Quotes
“I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.”
-- Roger Nash Baldwin

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“The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.”
-- Roger Nash Baldwin

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Law Quotes
“I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.”
-- Roger Nash Baldwin

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“The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in united fronts.”
-- Roger Nash Baldwin

Source : Woody Klein, Roger Nash Baldwin (2006). “Liberties Lost: The Endangered Legacy of the ACLU”, p.11, Greenwood Publishing Group

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“I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.”
-- Roger Nash Baldwin

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