Norman Thomas
Norman Thomas
Norman Mattoon Thomaswas an American Presbyterian minister who achieved fame as a socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 November 1884
CountryUnited States of America
flags gestures want
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
inspirational life loyalty
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
running country party
The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.
socialist-government nwo names
The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.
sacrifice men liberty
Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.
law personality groups
The central law of all wholesome life is reciprocity, mutuality. ... But the group is valuable only as it permits personalities, not automatons, to emerge.
war thinking said
All our rulers have said that war is unthinkable, and then we think about it almost all the time. We've got to make it unthinkable.
men harry-truman president
Harry Truman proves that old adage that any man can become President of the United States.
america face rather save soul
I'd rather see America save her soul than her face
war people would-be
Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million.
real believe justice
I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody.