George Clooney
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At the exact same time, we were putting Asian Americans, Japanese Americans into camps.
We're a very complicated country, which has huge goals and aspires to many of them and falls way short of many
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.
We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who fear to write, to speak,
to associate or to defend the causes that are for the moment unpopular.
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.
My father used to stand on a chair when he was...
I don't know how old, when I was seven, he would stand on a chair and he would recite that speech from Murrow.
My dad was a big Murrow, he was a big fan of Murrow's.
And he would do that and he would do Shakespeare when he'd stand on a chair for us when we were little kids to entertain us.
He wasn't well enough to come to the play, which was heartbreaking, quite honestly, because really it was written for him.
You know, it was written for his standard and what he taught me and what he asked of me as a child and as an adult.