Katharine Hepburn 1947 Speech against HUAC -- WOW very patriotic speech

[Tx4obama]

Run time: 10:06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqEjFusgUh0   Posted on YouTube: August 02, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 21, 2009 By DU Member: Tx4obama Views on DU: 1823

 
Part TWO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXy8BQ5-93E

Part THREE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWqYh3J0wsY

Great speech is in part three starting at 1:15

Hepburn: '... but why do the ... and ... and their bosses express no concern over the fate of American people who face growing unemployment and a terrible depression - their loud cries can be heard from one end of the country to the other bewailing the danger of a book on democracy or a play.... but they are strangely silent on the subject of housing, which of them has ever raised voice for full employment, an adequate health program, and security for the American people - who among them has cried the evils of discrimination against minorities or protested the futile anti-labor legislation just passed by the congress - AND where do these men stand in the fight for peace - to achieve peace and lasting prosperity there must be unity among us - and among all the nations of the world - the same unity that won the war - America became great not because of the Salem witch hunts, but in spite of them - we are still great because the American people have always accepted the challenge of new ideas from the day that freedom was born in 1776 to this very moment - the American people eagerly grasped the fresh concept when they created this nation - the men and women who rode covered wagons across the plains followed the road of vigor and youth to new freedom and a fuller life - the path of middle age thinking not only sets back the clock it leads only to the grave - and today we won't turn the clock back and we won't stand still - we'll move forward, progressively forward - that is what the American people have always done - we will fight not only to prevent the abridgment of freedom but to broaden the freedoms that already exist - we fight not only for what we have and hold dear - but for what we hope to have - and deserve to have - and can have - and that is why we are here tonight.


p.s. WOW, just WOW!

[Liberty Belle]

1. I've always admired Hepburn, and now even more so.

Thanks for posting this.

[av8rdave]

2. Just another hollywood limosine liberal

:sarcasm:

Fantastic! Thanks for posting. I have a new respect for KH.

[ccharles000]

3. wonderful

k/r

[struggle4progress]

4. Ooooh! Kiss me, Kate!

:D