John Howard Lawson
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John Howard Lawson (September 25, 1894 – August 11, 1977) was an American playwright and screenwriter. A communist, he is remembered as one of the "Hollywood Ten", who were blacklisted for refusing to give testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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- I am not on trial here, Mr. Chairman. This committee is on trial here before the American people. Let us get that straight.
- To Committee Chairman, J. Parnell Thomas), testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) of the US House of Representatives (October 27, 1947).
- You believe in freedom of speech for communists because what they say is true. You do not believe in freedom of speech for fascists because what they say is a lie.
- Speaking to the rest of the Hollywood Ten during their preparation for testimony, in answer to a hypothetical prosecution ploy, "Do you believe in free speech for fascists?" Quoted in Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten by Edward Dmytryk (Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, 1996), p. 114.
