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When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were.

~Bram Fischer

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Dubois, later in his life, would join the Communist party and renounce his American citizenship. His 'integration at all costs' message would, decades later, continue to influence the community's self-perception.

~Burgess Owens

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In the early days of the Russian Revolution in 1917, I was completely in sympathy with it. I felt that it established a new era in the history of the modern world. I was so overwhelmed by it that, if people made any unfriendly comment, I would vigorously defend it. If people condemned the Communist party, I would speak in its defense.

~Chiang Kai-Shek

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Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

~Dorothy Day

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With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.

~Edward Dmytryk

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I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

~Edward Dmytryk

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To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

~Elia Kazan

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I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

~Elia Kazan

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Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

~Evan Osnos

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In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home.

~Evan Osnos

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