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He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
-Edward R. Murrow, I Can Hear It Now (said of Churchill)
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Dissent
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If we confuse dissent with disloyalty
-Edward R. Murrow, Ford Fiftieth Anniversary Show, CBS and NBC (June 1953)
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Heresy
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I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.
-Edward R. Murrow
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Media
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A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom -- it's gone.
-Edward R. Murrow, News Summaries, December 31, 1955
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Prejudice
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
-Edward R. Murrow
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A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
-Edward R. Murrow
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Prophecy
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The obscure we see eventually, the completely apparent takes longer.
-Edward R. Murrow
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Protest
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.
-Edward R. Murrow, See It Now (1954)
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
-Edward R. Murrow, attributed
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Television
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If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
-Edward R. Murrow
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Truth
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To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.
-Edward R. Murrow
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Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.
-Edward R. Murrow
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War
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Anyone who isn't confused doesn't really understand the situation.
-Edward R. Murrow, (remark on the Vietnam War)
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Books by and about Edward R. Murrow