Question

It was a legal lynching which smears with blood a whole nation. By killing _______, you have quite simply tried to halt the progress of science by human sacrifice. Magic, witch-hunts... sacrifices — we are here getting to the point: your country is sick with fear... you are afraid of the shadow of your own bomb.

Answer 1

..." By killing the Rosenbergs, you have quite simply tried to halt the progress of science by human sacrifice..."
This was a sentence written by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre as a response to the killing of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg in 1953. This was organized by the director of the FBI at the time, J. Edgar Hoover, because they were Jews.