Radicals Quotes
His son, the famous aviator, was a Fascist who was a great admirer and supporter of Hitler and Mussolini. The father however was generally liberal as this quotation and {609657} illustrate.
This is one of the most indelicate political statements ever made. Normally, the argument that communists should be murdered is incendiary enough, but this remark came shortly after the Arizona attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords where she was shot in the head.
Wilson and others after the American Revolution saw a dilemma. Then young would be attorneys were trained to revere the law and when regular students learned history and civics, the curriculum did not always emphasize that the older generation had engaged in rebellion, sedition, disloyalty to the government and armed revolution. However, they way their children were taught was to obey the law, be loyal to the government, and be good staid citizens. The dilemma has been with the nation ever since.
The “radicals” refer to the extremely conservative, religiously-oriented Israelis. To them the only real and important element is the land that God gave to the Jewish people. They see the State as artificial and whose only legitimate role is to protect and defend the land of Israel. God has ordained the laws in the Talmud—the first 5 Books of the Old Testament. They do not believe in democracy but seek a Hebrew Theocracy of the Ancient Jews before they made the error of having kings. Some of them opposed the civil government of Israel when the country was founded via a UN resolution and a few would not even defend the new country under a civil government. The relative moderates see Israel as a nation state where the land of Israel can be changed, negotiated, traded as other nations do with their borders. One irony is no one knows exactly the borders of the land which God gave to the Jews and this is why archeology is so politically important in Israel compared to other countries.
Wright, like so many idealists had been a communist before the reality about Stalin and Russia was public knowledge. He then became a virulent anti-Communist and appeared in many international gatherings of Black artists and intellectuals. However, he felt that the CIA funding of an organization called the American Society for African Culture was undermining his message and integrity.’
In 1916 Woodrow Wilson nominated Brandeis for the Supreme Court. There was major opposition, including some wealthy Jews. Brandeis, writing in the third person, described the reasons.
