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… my century..is unique in the history of men for two reasons. It is the first century since life be...

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Witness

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a m...

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It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in t...

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Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffe...

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Economics is not the central problem of this century. It is a relative problem which can be solved i...

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As I continued to pray raggedly, prayer ceased to be an awkward and self-conscious act. It became a ...

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[It is b]etter to die on the losing side than to live under communisim.

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely on...

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On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable ...

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Whittaker Chambers

Writer

Born: 1901-04-01

Died: 1961-07-09

Whittaker Chambers (1 April 1901 – 9 July 1961) was an American writer and editor, who first served in the Soviet underground and later, under subpoena before the House Un-American Activities Committee, alleged that he had run several spy rings of former Federal officials, including Alger Hiss.More