James Harvey Robinson Quotes
Nothing could be less intelligent than to assume, as many respectable persons still manage to do, that the forms of agitation which are popularly summed up in the terms socialism, anarchism, feminism, and pacifism are mere eccentricities of unbalanced minds, seeking to cloak their hatred of restraint and their cowardice under theories of social regeneration.
Note that at the time feminism was classified with the other “radical”, dangerous isms. Also, many people just did not take any of these movements seriously. The perception was that the advocates were mentally unbalanced.
James Harvey Robinson, 1863–1936, Historian & Co-Founder of the New School for Social Research, “The Threatened Eclipse of Free Speech”, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1917
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This quotation was documented by an FBI illegal wiretap of King and his associates. The illegal wiretap had been insisted upon by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover who was a racist and somewhat of a paranoid about communists. However, Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy personally approved the illegal wiretap.
The first Russian Revolutionary Newspaper for Workers. Volodarsky shot to the top of the early revolutionary leadership. Most of the early Russian leaders were intellectuals and theoreticians. Valodarsky had much organizing experience and could communicate well with workers having been active in the Ladies Garment Workers Union and the American Socialist Party. His practical American approach was just what was needed and he became a key member of the leadership. He was so instrumental in the Bolshevik leadership that he was targeted for assassination along with Lenin and Uritsky. Lenin was only wounded. The others died. Goldstein was only 27 years old. Russia named bridges, schools and warships after him.
He was a major critic of Socialism but he did acknowledge that the Socialist Movement had made major contributions.
His strategy was to fill the jails of Birmingham, and asked the young people to help. The next days saw virtually all the Birmingham high school students our of school and in the streets protesting which was then against the un-Constitutional laws of Birmingham and Alabama. The students were arrested by the droves and the white authorities, believing that they were being firm against “radical lawbreakers”, fell into the trap, and became a travesty to most of the country and the rest of the world and the hundreds of jailed students beaten and assaulted raised the consciousness of whites as well as Blacks.
James Harvey Robinson was an American historian, who co-founded New History, which greatly broadened the scope of historical scholarship in relation to the social sciences. Jay Green concludes:
