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.
UPTON SINCLAIRIt is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
More Upton Sinclair Quotes
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American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.
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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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An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
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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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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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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
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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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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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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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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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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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You can’t make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
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