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Roger Nash Baldwin [1884-1981] American
Rank: 103
Activist, Author


Roger Nash Baldwin was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union. He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950.

Freedom, Politics

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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. Freedom
101
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.
102
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. Politics
103
The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
104
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.
105
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.
106
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.
107

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