The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims
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.
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.
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.
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.
I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.
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.
The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.
The needlework of lies and rumors seeks to distract peoples attention from the daily business of governance under the Presidents leadership. Those who continually plot for the Presidents downfall will never succeed because she is a hard-working President with no other agenda than to promote our peoples welfare
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.