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Page 1442 - The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time, investigations of (1) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (2) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and (3) all other questions in relation...
Page 1850 - There exists a world Communist movement which, in its origins, its development, and its present practice, is a world-wide revolutionary movement whose purpose it is, by treachery, deceit, infiltration into other groups (governmental and otherwise), espionage, sabotage, terrorism, and any other means deemed necessary, to establish a Communist totalitarian dictatorship in the countries throughout the world through the medium of a world-wide Communist organization.
Page 2000 - The people of the United States are now confronted with an emergency more serious than war. Misery is wide-spread, in a time, not of scarcity, but of over-abundance. The long-continued depression has brought unprecedented unemployment, a catastrophic fall in commodity prices and a volume of economic losses which threatens our financial institutions. Some people believe that the existing conditions threaten even the stability of the capitalistic system.
Page 2284 - Hollywood and refused to answer questions on the ground that to do so might tend to incriminate him? Mr.
Page 1795 - I pledge myself to rally the masses to defend the Soviet Union, the land of victorious Socialism. I pledge myself to remain at all times a vigilant and firm defender of the Leninist line of the Party, the only line that insures the triumph of Soviet Power in the United States.
Page 1451 - As a leader and organizer of the proletariat, the Communist Party of the United States of America leads the working class in the fight for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, for the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, for the establishment of a Socialist soviet republic in the United States...
Page 1545 - I have been advised by my counsel not to answer that question on the grounds that it might tend to incriminate me.
Page 1494 - ... function of the American people to tell their Congressmen they should or should not vote, and you are reversing the process of legislation by becoming a tyrannical government, by seeking to make this a tyrannical government instead of the democratic government that it was intended to be. I further refuse to answer this question on the grounds of the fifth amendment, because I will not aid you in your attempts to persecute me and others.
Page 1541 - I refuse to answer, on the ground that it might tend to incriminate me, and on the further grounds already stated in my objection.
Page 1625 - The witness has stated that she would not answer the question as to whether or not she was a member of the Communist Party yesterday.

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