The Communist Party USA and African-americans/world War II 1939 - 1945

Famous quotes containing the words world, war, usa, party and/or communist:

    “There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”
    —Guy Debord (b. 1931)

    “To be deeply committed to negotiations, to be opposed to a particular war or military action, is not only considered unpatriotic, it also casts serious doubt on one’s manhood.”
    —Myriam Miedzian, U.S. author. Boys Will Be Boys, ch. 2 (1991)

    “It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.”
    —Westbrook Pegler (1894–1969)

    “There was an old party of Lyme
    Who married three wives at one time.”
    —Edward Lear (1812–1888)

    “The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one’s personal integrity.”
    —Milovan Djilas (b. 1911)