I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
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So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
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| Birth: | 21st January, 1884 |
| Death: | 26th August, 1981 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Activist |
About
oger Nash Baldwin was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union. He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses.Baldwin was a well known pacifist and author.
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