American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
UPTON SINCLAIRWe define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
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I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
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I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.
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The old wanderlust had gotten into his blood, the joy of the unbound life, the joy of seeking, of hoping without limit.
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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.
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It is the music which makes it what it is; it is the music which changes the place from the rear room of a saloon in back of the yards to a fairy place, a wonderland, a little comer of the high mansions of the sky.
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church’s opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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You don’t have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn’t like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I’ve been trying to change it ever since.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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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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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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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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