Milton Mayer
Milton Sanford Mayer was an American journalist and educator, best known for his long-running column in The Progressive magazine, founded by Robert M. La Follette Sr., in Madison, Wisconsin.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Chicago
- Educated at
- University of ChicagoEnglewood Technical Prep Academy
- Awards
- 🏆 George Polk Award
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"National Socialism did not make men unfree; unfreedom made men National Socialists."
"Justice alone knows liberty, equality, and fraternity, and justice is a human virtue arising from man's human capacity to reason. We cannot make sense out of justice by looking at the moon or taking d…"
"Men who did not know that they were slaves do not know that they have been freed."
"One day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly…"
"Hitlerism was a mass flight to dogma, to the barbaric dogma that had not been expelled with the Romans, the dogma of the tribe, the dogma that gave every man importance only in so far as the tribe was…"
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Timeline
1908
Born
Birth1986
Died
Death
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