I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!
Well, that's exactly the wrong attitude. That is not the attitude they had in World War II. Your attitude is that freedom means you can do whatever you want whenever you want it, and that sacrifice is somehow un-American. ... But the idea that we should also be defensive about our flaws and weaknesses and our vulnerabilities is ridiculous.
ALA officials said they are battling these efforts as contrary to the nation's tradition of intellectual freedom. It all comes down to the imposition of your views on other people, ... To be honest, it seems to me to be downright un-American.
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.
Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?
The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.
Isadore Duncan, who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.
This is really an abuse of power. PETA and other groups are really being targeted because we are being social activists and engaging in free speech. This is un-American and unconstitutional and contrary to the interests of any definition of a healthy democracy.
Solitude is un-American.
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
Never before in the history of our nation has government permission been required to travel freely in our country. It's un-American. It's unconstitutional. It's just plain wrong.
By pushing grand juries to issue politically motivated indictments of prominent Republicans, Ronnie Earle is trying to make it a crime to be conservative, to support an agenda of lower taxes and less government. That's un-American,
The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to express themselves, ... For them to be banished wholesale from radio stations, and even entire radio networks, for speaking out is un-American. The pressure coming from the government and big business to enforce conformity of thought concerning the war and politics goes against everything that this country is about -- namely freedom.
UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
The government is taking away choice. That is just fundamentally un-American.
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