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We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.

Upton Sinclair

They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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Exception Tools Use Work
In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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Power Vision
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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Accomplishment Corruption Democracy Necessary Oneself Politics
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
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Believe Goodness
Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
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Business Discover Money Pieces
All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
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Art Change Creativity Happiness Optimistic Practice Tragedy True Work
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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Art Escape World
But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.
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Country Faith Liberty Myself Ourselves Religious Suffering
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
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Mental Person Sick Society Voice
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
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Crime Ignorance Mindset Stupidity
The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.
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Depression Greatness Result Team Work
I don’t know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- ‘social justice.’ For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
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Believe Care Fight Heart Justice Myself Word
Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?
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Blame Evil Honesty Media Myself
I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body.
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Body Existence Goodness Gratitude Health Human Joy Myself Perfection Potential
In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
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Competition Money Necessary Power Society Waste
The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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Control Money Slave

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