Quote from Good Night and Good Luck | Jul 11 2006- Saw the movie over the weekend. Very impressed. It is a story about reporters at CBS news television fighting McCarthism in 1950's America.
Highly recommended to Cafe guests in China.
The Quotes below are from the movie.
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No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that Congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior Senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.
We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. If we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to associate, to speak, and to defend the causes that were for the moment unpopular.
This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the results.
We proclaim ourselves, indeed as we are, the defenders of freedom wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
The actions of the junior Senator from Wisconsin have caused alarm and dismay amongst our allies abroad, and given considerable comfort to our enemies.
And whose fault is that? Not really his. He didn't create this situation of fear, he merely exploited it, and rather successfully.
Cassius was right. "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
Good night, and good luck.
我也很喜欢这个电影。废名老师还曾获得 Edward Murrow 奖呢 (Edward Murrow award for excellence in journalism)。想听听他的见解。