They are talking like fools. They are saying that two and two make nothing. They are saying that a man will have to die to in order to protect his life. If you agree to fight you agree to die. Now if you die to protect your life you aren't alive anyhow so how is there any sense in a thing like that? A man doesn't say I will starve myself to death to keep from starving. He doesn't say I will spend all my money in order to save money. He doesn't say I will burn my house to down in order to keep it from burning. Why then should he be willing to die for the privilege of living?

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Trumbo was a member of the Communist Party USA from 1943 until 1948. by Stanley Kubrick
Exodus 1960 (based on Leon Uris' 1958 novel of the same name)
The Last Sunset 1961
Lonely are the Brave 1962
The Sandpiper 1965
Hawaii 1966 (based on the novel by James Michener 1959)
The Fixer 1968
Johnny Got His Gun 1971 (also directed)
The Horsemen 1971
F. He donated his body to science.

Trumbo won two Academy Awards while blacklisted; one was originally given to a front writer and one was awarded to "Robert Rich" Trumbo's pseudonym. His son Christopher Trumbo wrote a play based on his letters during the period of the blacklist entitled Red White and Blacklisted (2003) produced in New York in 2003. James Dalton Trumbo (December 9 1905 – September 10 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist.