Talk:Roger Nash Baldwin

message: I moved all the quotes, including the disputed one, to Wikiquote, which is where they belong in any case.  I have no idea if I created the page there correctly; also, many of the quotes should probably be listed under 'sourced', but I didn't have information like the edition of books, etc for sourcing.  Feel free to correct that. Aquillion 23:55, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I wikified it and moved some to sourced.  Otherwise, the transfer went fine. —thames 00:34, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: On second thought...

message: According to one source, he once wrote "I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal." (Peggy Lamson, Roger Baldwin: Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union: A Portrait; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1976, p. 192.)
::Either he wrote the quote or he didn't.  Scribner 04:08, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is that the latest version of the article made the mistake of attributing it to a book, Liberty Under the Soviets.  Unlike the more vague assertions that it was 'somewhere' or as a side-note in a vanished college yearbook, Liberty Under the Soviets is real and searchable, and the quote is not in it. I could not find, incidentally, even the assertion that he wrote it in the source that was linked.  There are other issues with using one quote out of context, as noted above...  the appropriate place for quotes is normally Wikiquote. --Aquillion 05:21, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have changed the attribution to: Affidavit of Roger N. Baldwin, December 31, 1938, Investigation of un-American propaganda activities in the United States. Hearings before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 75th-78th Congress, pp. 3081-3082.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.178.55.83 (talk) 06:40, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Weasel words

message: There is too much unsourced info on this page and alot of it looks derogatory. I will clean this article up in the next couple of days but a good start would be to add citations to the fact tags. This article looks to be a bit of a political hit piece (or maybe it's all true?). It just needs proper citations throughout. Turtlescrubber 04:25, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pov tag

message: ACLU's FAQ page says 
"Was co-founder Roger Baldwin a Communist? 
No, Roger Baldwin was not a communist. Like many of his contemporaries, he observed and wrote about the social and political issues in the early years of the Soviet Union, but later he wrote,'The Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, a traumatic shock to me, ended any ambivalence I had about the Soviet Union, and all cooperation with Communists in united fronts.'"
http://www.aclu.org/about/faqs/index.html#3_6 , accessed 4 Feb 2008  -- Writtenonsand (talk) 14:11, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baldwin a Communist? 

message: This doesn't do justice to one of the most influential persons in modern US history. Where is the story of this man's life? This is the outline for an article commensurate with this man's role in the US.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.67.196.93 (talk) 22:07, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is it?