Is it altogether a Utopian dream that once in history a ruling class might be willing to make the great surrender and permit social change to come about without hatred, turmoil, and waste of human life?

—Upton Sinclair

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About Upton Sinclair

Portrait of Upton Sinclair

Upton Beall Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American author, muckraker journalist, and political activist, and the 1934 Democratic Party nominee for governor of California. He wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the...

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

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