Alexander Cockburn Quotes

Alexander Cockburn — English Journalist born on June 06, 1941, died on July 21, 2012

Alexander Claud Cockburn was an Irish American political journalist and writer. Cockburn was brought up by British parents in Ireland but had lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edited the political newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn also wrote the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation as well as one for The Week in London, syndicated by Creators Syndicate... (wikipedia)

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin.

England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal dust and smoke, from the grit stirred up every day by the jackhammers still clearing out rubble from the Blitz.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.