I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired. Roger Nash Baldwin More Quotes by Roger Nash Baldwin More Quotes From Roger Nash Baldwin 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. Roger Nash Baldwin wealth goal class 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. Roger Nash Baldwin denial practice self 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. Roger Nash Baldwin law war thinking 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. Roger Nash Baldwin liberty teaching christian 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. Roger Nash Baldwin unitarian-church helping-others years 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. Roger Nash Baldwin united-front cooperation unions So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. Roger Nash Baldwin fight democracy politics people The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention. Roger Nash Baldwin than better smallest intention
