Carl Oglesby Quotes

1935–2011 United States

Carl Oglesby (July 30, 1935 – September 13, 2011) was an American writer, academic, and political activist. He was the President of the leftist student organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) from 1965 to 1966.

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When the house is burning down around the poet's head, on grounds of what if any dispensation can the poet continue the poem?

The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction (1972)

The conscience exists, standing before us now asking not to be created or perfected but to be chosen and defended, in need of champions, not exiles. Any fiction which refuses that request is henceforth a collaborationist fiction.

The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction (1972)

In a strong sense, the Old Right and the New Left are morally and politically coordinate.

Containment and Change (1967)

Culture, ... that standard shield of class, is allowed to surface only in order to become more evidence of ... vanity.

The Deserters: The Contemporary Defeat of Fiction (1972)

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