Herbert Croly Quotes
... all good Americans, while verbally asking for nothing but equal rights, ... interpret the phrase so that equal rights become equivalent to special rights.
Herbert Croly, 1869-1930, Writer and Founder of The New Republic, The Promise of American Life, Macmillan, 1909
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President Bush, who in 6 years had only pardoned or commuted the sentence of 2 people before, commuted the criminal jail sentence of Scooter Libby, the White House Vice Presidential Chief of Staff who had lied to the FBI and the Grand Jury in order to protect the role of White House officials in the illegally leaking the identity of a CIA covert operator to punish her husband—a critic of the administration.
60 years later George Orwell would use the last line in his famous Animal Farm --- See {625338} .
At the time all the Australian political parties were supporting a White Only immigration policy. Lambrick, who sometimes used the name Hypatia, started the race policy debate in the Socialist Party by this line in a Socialist Journal.
Herbert David Croly was an intellectual leader of the progressive movement as an editor, political philosopher and a co-founder of the magazine The New Republic in early twentieth-century America. His political philosophy influenced many leading progressives including Theodore Roosevelt, Adolph Berle, as well as his close friends Judge Learned Hand and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.
