The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
"Maxwell "Max" Alan Lerner" was an United States/American journalist and educator known for his controversial syndicated column (periodical)/column.
After immigrating from Russia with his parents in 1907, Lerner earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1923. He studied law there but transferred to Washington University in St. Louis for an M.A. in 1925.
He earned a doctorate from the Brookings Institution in 1927 and began work as an editor:
*Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (1927–32)
*The Nation (1936–38)
*PM (newspaper)/PM (1943–48)
Lerner's most influential book was America as a Civilization: Life and Thought in the United States Today (1957).
Lerner was a staunch opponent of discrimination against African Americans, but supported the
wartime Japanese American internment/internment of Japanese Americans and backed an American Civil Liberties Union resolution on the issue to "subordinate civil liberties to wartime considerations and political loyalties". Lerner was a strong advocate of
the New DealSanford Lakoff, "Preface", pp. ix-xxi, in Lakoff, Max Lerner : Pilgrim in the Promised Land.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More Max Lerner on Wikipedia.You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
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