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  Free Speech Newsletter: Vol. 7, No. 3 (May-Jun. 1999)
Due to this charity’s refusal to register, the registration of the Maryland fundraising consultant was revoked by Pinellas County, whereupon the county revoked the registration of all of the consultant’s charitable clients which had registered with the county.
Like a quarantine, once a single client of a for-profit was diagnosed with the disease of nonregistration, all of that charity’s listed vendors became diseased, at which point all charities which had contact with that for-profit also became diseased – i.e.
The Free Speech Coalition, Inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization which educates, lobbies, and litigates to defend the rights of advocacy organizations and their members.
www.freespeechcoalition.org /nwsv7n4.htm   (1475 words)

  
  47001. Roosevelt, Franklin D. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996
When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.
FDR Speaks authorized editions of speeches, 1933-1945 (recordings of Franklin Roosevelt’s public addresses), side 4, “Quarantine Speech” at Chicago, Illinois (Oct. 5, 1937), ed., Henry Steele Commager, Introduced by Eleanor Roosevelt, Washington Records, Inc. (1960).
This was FDR’s famous speech in which he warned that the United States could not sit back and remain isolated from the “epidemic disease” of aggression.
www.bartleby.com /66/1/47001.html   (266 words)

  
 Quarantine Speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Quarantine Speech given by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1937 in Chicago calling for an international "quarantine of the aggressor nations" as an alternative to the political climate of American neutrality and isolationism that was prevalent at the time.
And mark this well: When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.
It is my determination to pursue a policy of peace and to adopt every practicable measure to avoid involvement in war.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quarantine_Speech   (1533 words)

  
 The Authentic History Center
However, it was a significant speech because it displayed Roosevelt’s long-held belief in a system of collective security.
You may read the entire speech and then play each clip as you arrive at that section.
And mark this well: When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.
www.authentichistory.com /1930s/history/19371005_FDR_Quarantine_Speech.html   (1609 words)

  
 Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
President Kennedy, in a televised address on October 22, announced the discovery of the installations and proclaimed that any nuclear missile attack from Cuba would be regarded as an attack by the Soviet Union and would be responded to accordingly.
The word quarantine was used rather than blockade for reasons of international law (the blockade took place in international waters) and in keeping with the Quarantine Speech of 1937 by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
He confirmed the presence of the missiles in Cuba and announced the naval blockade as a quarantine zone of 500 nautical miles (926 km) around the Cuban coast.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis   (2189 words)

  
 CNN Cold War - Historical Documents: Kennedy's radio and television address
First: To halt this offensive buildup, a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated.
This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carriers.
We are not at this time, however, denying the necessities of life as the Soviets attempted to do in their Berlin blockade of 1948.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/10/documents/kennedy.speech   (1006 words)

  
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Additionally, let's examine FDR's infamous "Quarantine" speech in Chicago, 1937: does this sound like a person who wants peace?: "We are determined to keep out of war, yet we cannot insure ourselves against the disastrous effects of war and the dangers of involvement.
This speech was a thinly-disguised threat towards Japan, and to a lesser extent, Germany.
Since FDR's speeches were usually written by his Jewish staffers, and since Jews did not like Japan or Germany, the flavor of the speech is easy to understand.
wsi.matriots.com /FDRmain.html   (969 words)

  
 Miller Center — Franklin D. Roosevelt Speeches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The original recordings of all of Roosevelt's presidential speeches are housed at the Roosevelt Presidential Library.
The President ends by reassuring Americans about the threat of war after his "Quarantine Speech" seven days earlier left many Americans concerned about the state of the world.
The president used this speech to establish allies in his feud with UMW leader John L. Lewis.
millercenter.virginia.edu /scripps/diglibrary/prezspeeches/roosevelt   (1539 words)

  
 Quarantining dissent / How the Secret Service protects Bush from free speech
The Bush administration's anti-protester bias proved embarrassing for two American allies with long traditions of raucous free speech, resulting in some of the most repressive restrictions in memory in free countries.
The FBI took a shotgun approach toward protesters partly because of the FBI's "belief that dissident speech and association should be prevented because they were incipient steps toward the possible ultimate commission of act which might be criminal," according to a Senate report.
On Nov. 23 news broke that the FBI is actively conducting surveillance of antiwar demonstrators, supposedly to "blunt potential violence by extremist elements," according to a Reuters interview with a federal law enforcement official.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/04/INGPQ40MB81.DTL&type=printable   (1858 words)

  
 NARA - World War II - Voices of World War II, 1937-1945
They are in chronological order, and the speaker and the subject or occasion of each speech are identified.
King George VI, Empire Day address, broadcast from London: "It is not mere territorial conquest the enemy is seeking, it is the overthrow, complete and final, of the Empire and of everything for which it stands, and after that the conquest of the world." * 15 min.
The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world.
www.archives.gov /research/ww2/sound-recordings.html?template=print   (3686 words)

  
 FIRE - Students Censored, Free Speech Under Quarantine at University of Central Florida
This policy quarantines free speech at UCF to four areas covering only a small percentage of its campus.
Last March, members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and UCF Campus Peace Action gathered to protest the Iraq war in front of the student center, a heavily-trafficked area that lies outside the “free speech zones.” As the protest got underway, campus police forced the students to vacate the area.
FIRE has also had success in fighting “free speech zones” at West Virginia University, Texas Tech, Citrus College, the University of Nevada at Reno, and the University of North Carolina–Greensboro.
www.thefire.org /index.php/article/7548.html   (495 words)

  
 FIRE - Free Speech Under Quarantine at University of Nevada, Reno
This policy quarantines free speech at UNR to four zones covering only a small percentage of the campus and places onerous bureaucratic restrictions on speech even within these zones.
It is time that administrators remember that and stop treating free speech like a concept that needs to be feared, hyper-regulated, and restricted.” Lukianoff said.
FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation that unites civil rights and civil liberties leaders, scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals from across the political and ideological spectrum on behalf of individual rights, due process, freedom of expression, academic freedom, and rights of conscience at our nation’s colleges and universities.
www.thefire.org /index.php/article/7002.html?PHPSESSID=e2d64797d0d5ab5b0b5dc48597b8f68a   (477 words)

  
 Address to the Nation on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Any hostile move anywhere in the world against the safety and freedom of peoples to whom we are committed--including in particular the brave people of West Berlin--will be met by whatever action is needed.
Finally, I want to say a few words to the captive people of Cuba, to whom this speech is being directly carried by special radio facilities.
I speak to you as a friend, as one who knows of your deep attachment to your fatherland, as one who shares your aspirations for liberty and justice for all.
www.jfklibrary.org /j102262.htm   (2002 words)

  
 ABQ Tribune 4/26/2005
Roosevelt proclaimed, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" in his inauguration speech on March 4, 1933.
He compared the outbreak of international violence to a communicable disease needing to be quarantined.
This speech began debates over just how much the United States should be concerned with international diplomacy.
www.chairgrrl.com /ABQ_Trib042605.htm   (484 words)

  
 Miller Center of Public Affairs - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Speeches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The original recordings of all of Roosevelt's presidential speeches are housed at the Roosevelt Presidential Library.
The President ends by reassuring Americans about the threat of war after his "Quarantine Speech" seven days earlier left many Americans concerned about the state of the world.
The president used this speech to establish allies in his feud with UMW leader John L. Lewis.
www.millercenter.virginia.edu /index.php/scripps/digitalarchive/speechDetail/24   (1494 words)

  
 Military: It's an Axis and It's Evil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Winston Churchill's " Iron Curtain " speech at Fulton, Missouri in the short run left him painted as a warmonger much like his earlier warnings of Nazi barbarism and British unpreparedness left him facing jeers in the House of Commons.
Franklin Roosevelt's greatest rhetorical misstep was his "Quarantine Speech" proposing concerted pressure against the original Axis powers.
In the course of the resulting uproar FDR was abused from coast to coast, and one congressman called for Roosevelt's impeachment.
hnn.us /articles/606.html   (1502 words)

  
 “Free-Speech Zone”
Presuming that terrorists are as unimaginative and predictable as the average federal bureaucrat is not a recipe for presidential longevity.
But instead of a “free speech zone”—as such areas are labeled in the U.S.—the Bush administration demanded an “exclusion zone” to protect Bush from protesters’ messages.
But the trend lines in federal attacks on freedom of speech should raise grave concerns to anyone worried about the First Amendment or about how a future liberal Democratic president such as Hillary Clinton might exploit the precedents that Bush is setting.
www.amconmag.com /12_15_03/feature.html   (1822 words)

  
 History of Nova Scotia, Index of Dates, 1799.
Governor Wentworth in his speech recommends quarantine laws to guard against "yellow fever"; he recommends the completion of the roads to Annapolis and Pictou.
Business of every kind was at a stand, and those who could afford it removed into the country.
At Boston and Halifax a strict quarantine was enforced." (Murdoch.)
www.blupete.com /Hist/Dates/1799.htm   (686 words)

  
 FDR Quarantine Speech 1937
When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.
It is my determination to pursue a policy of peace.
Text and mp3 from the Miller Center of Public Affairs Scripps Library Roosevelt Presidential Speeches
history.sandiego.edu /gen/text/us/fdr1937.html   (1440 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Roosevelt's first weeks in office were called The Hundred Days, as during the first part of his administration he authored and approved a flurry of Congressional acts to institute immediate change and keep the nation's economy from destabilizing.
He instituted a tradition of weekly radio speeches, which he called "fireside chats." These "chats" gave him the opportunity to take his opinions to the American people, and they often bolstered his popularity as he campaigned for various changes.
One speech he is famous for delivering was his State of the Union Address in 1941.
www.ipedia.com /franklin_delano_roosevelt.html   (1903 words)

  
 cas475s04syllabus
Texts of the speeches may be found at the American Presidency project.
Some of the readings, such as the speeches of FDR, will be made available as electronic texts on the course Angel site.
Music and recorded speeches from 1932 to 1945 at the Penn State Digital Music Library (accessible only to Penn State users).
www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/t/3/t3b/courses/cas475spring2004/cas475s04syllabus.htm   (2193 words)

  
 WWII Begins
When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease.
A quarantine of the lawless, a quarantine of those that threaten world peace.
As the depression swept through the United States it also laid waste to the continent of Europe.
www.socialstudieshelp.com /USRA_WWII_Begins.htm   (313 words)

  
 Prof speaks on rhetoric during military crisis (Jan 10, 2002)
Zaeske will discuss the "speech acts" that have been employed by U.S. presidents in response to national crises such as the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Cuban missile crisis, and the events of Sept. 11.
Zaeske's research focuses on political rhetoric, particularly that of the early nineteenth century, and she is the author of "We Have Done What We Could: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women's Political Identity," forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press.
Zaeske teaches a popular undergraduate course entitled "Great Speakers and Speeches," which she modified this past semester in response to Sept. 11 in order to help students come to terms with speeches of national crisis, religion and politics, and fascistic rhetoric.
www.news.wisc.edu /6952.html   (389 words)

  
 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2001018021
Kennedy's Speech on the Alliance for Progress (1961) 127.
Carter's Speech on the SALT II Treaty (1979) 142.
Clinton, Speech on Iraq and Haiti (1994) 158.
www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy031/2001018021.html   (625 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
His speeches were excellent motivators of the masses.
In response to all of this, FDR gave his famous "Quarantine Speech" in 1937.
It was broadcast nationwide and in it he spoke of the unraveling of world peace and said that the international crisis was like an epidemic.
www.citruscollege.com /DE/solheim/Hist222/fracturingworldorderNEW.htm   (3659 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sergei Khrushchev began his speech by explaining the basics of the missile crisis, which lasted for seven days, not 13 days, for the Russians....
Bundy: I e got the speech all figured out, the one thing he must know is that he is going to say something to us about this at some point....
Finally, it should be stressed that the Cuban quarantine was undertaken as a legal operation within the spirit of international law....
www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/1148.html   (3212 words)

  
 La Cucaracha Spanish Civil War Diary October 1937   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
President Roosevelt criticized publicly the "Nazi-Fascist aggressors" in Spain during his "quarantine" speech in Chicago.
One of the most famous and active Asturian Maquis, Jose Mata, escaped 1948 with 34 of his men on a small fishing boat to France).
During a speech in the Madrid cinema 'Pardinas', criticizing the Spanish Communist Party PCE, Largo Caballero is arrested and placed under house arrest.
www.lacucaracha.info /scw/diary/1937/october   (777 words)

  
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Some sinister underground deal must have been consummated within two months, however, for in a speech in Chicago on October 5th the President made an about-face, which was probably the most complete in the whole history of American foreign policy.
Far more numerous than denouncers or endorsers of the "quarantine" speech of 1937 were those who called for clarification.
Since Churchill was characteristically no weak-kneed yes-man (witness his "blood and tears" speech which rallied his people in one of their darkest hours), Roosevelt and his clique must have confronted him with terrible alternatives to secure his consent to the unnatural U.S. decisions in the last months of the war.
www.stormfront.org /iron_curtain/curtain4.html   (5328 words)

  
 Nye Committee, Neutrality Acts, Quarantine Speech, Destroyer Deal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Continuing debate about America's role as an arms merchant saw the establishment in the 1930s of a special Senate Munitions Investigating Committee, known as the Nye Committee, after its Chairman, Senator Gerald P. Nye (Republican from North Dakota).
Chiefly because of the lack of enthusiasm of Secretary Hull and the British, nothing came directly out of this proposal.
However, it was a significant speech because it displayed Roosevelt's long-held belief in a system of collective security.
www.owlnet.rice.edu /~mwfriedm/terms/david25.html   (1078 words)

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