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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. Murrow
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Edward R. Murrow
Age: 59 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 25
Died: 1967
Died: April 27
Journalist
Greensboro
North Carolina
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If none of us ever read a book that was dangerous, had a friend who was different, or joined an organization that advocated change, we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
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I am frightened by the imbalance, the constant striving to reach the largest possible audience for everything by the absence of a sustained study of the state of the nation.
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A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.
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I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.
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A satellite has no conscience.
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All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
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I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and more mature than most of our industry's program planners believe.
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
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We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.
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Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
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In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.
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The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.
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Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
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We cannot make good news out of bad practice.
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Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.
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