Heywood Broun
Heywood Broun
Heywood Campbell Broun, Jr.was an American journalist. He worked as a sportswriter, newspaper columnist, and editor in New York City. He founded the American Newspaper Guild, now known as The Newspaper Guild. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he is best remembered for his writing on social issues and his championing of the underdog. He believed that journalists could help right wrongs, especially social ills...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth7 December 1888
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.
Everybody favors free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground
I might resume the habit of going to church if the preacher would be honest enough to stand up some morning and say, "Perhaps next Sunday, but not today," and then sit down
For the truth there is no deadline.
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
The pursuit of happiness belongs to us, but we must climb around or over the church to get it
The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel