Carolina QuotesWe can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of a republic to abdicate his responsibilities. As a nation we have come into our full inheritance at a tender age. We proclaim ourselves, as indeed 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.
Edward R. Murrow
Carolinian
Source
Closing remarks, See It Now, CBS Television, March 9, 1954
- form
- broadcast
- work
- See It Now: A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
- year
- 1954
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