There are no atheists in the fox holes.

William Thomas Cummings

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Topic

Facing death God and war War

Speaker

William Thomas Cummings

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

Occupation

Clergyman

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cummings, William Thomas. Quoted in I Saw the Fall of the Philippines, by Carlos P. Romulo. Doubleday, 1943, ch. 15.

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I can't prove you are a Communist. But when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks-I'm certainly going to assume that he is a duck.

Emil Mazey

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Communism
Speaker
Emil Mazey
Language
English
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Mazey, Emil. Spoken at labor meeting of the United Automobile Workers. Labor meeting. 1946, Detroit, MI, USA.

Another quote about War

Warfare... Is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Margaret Mead

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Topic
War

Author

Margaret Mead
Source
Warfare is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity
Medium
Essay
Genre
Political literature
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Mead, Margaret. "Warfare is Only an Invention--Not a Biological Necessity." Asia, Aug. 1940.

Another quote from 1943

I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.

Langston Hughes

The Black Man Speaks

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Topic
Jim Crow Black experience

Author

Langston Hughes
Source
The Black Man Speaks
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1943 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Hughes, Langston. "The Black Man Speaks." Jim Crow’s Last Stand. Negro Publications Society of America, 1943, I. 1.