Roger Nash Baldwin
Roger Nash Baldwin
Roger Nash Baldwinwas one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union. He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth21 January 1884
CountryUnited States of America
class goal wealth
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.
deed grandest smallest
The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.
country people willing
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
justice people wells
I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.
helping-others years unitarian-church
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.
war thinking law
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.
christian teaching liberty
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.
practice self denial
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.
unions united-front cooperation
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.