Dalton Trumbo Quotes
A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving, or that he'd spend all of his money to save money. Why should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?
Trumbo, Dalton. Johnny Got His Gun. J. B. Lippincott, 1939.
During the Cuban Missle Crises, Fidel Castro recommended that the Russians use the nuclear weaponin based in Cuba which would have assured that all Cubans and many Russians would die with the American retaliation.
Indeed he was. Relatively unknown before his execution, he became one of the most recognized martyrs and characters of history. Songs about him are even today sung by people who have no idea who he was or what he stood for, but in his death he drew attention to the evils of slavery as few others had.
Trumbo was morally opposed to war. He also refused to name Hollywood communists to Congressional Committees during the Red Scare. He was then blacklisted from his occupation, screen writing.
James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted many award-winning films, including Roman Holiday (1953), Exodus, Spartacus (both 1960), and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944). One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.
