We're not descended from fearful men

Watching 'Good Night, and Good Luck' right now. I'd like to have been able to see this firsthand; some would say we're in the same type of situation, but we lack a voice as clear as Murrow's.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends on evidence, and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another, we will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and or doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to associate, to speak, and to defend the causes that were for the moment unpopular. This is no time for men who oppose Senator McCarthy's methods to keep silent, or for those who approve. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the results. We proclaim ourselves indeed as we are, the defenders of freedom, wherever it continues to exist in the world, but we cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.