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Quotes from A Series of Lectures on Social Justice — Charles Coughlin

1891–1979 United States

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The representatives of labor should have a voice in the management of the business.

A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)

We maintain that it is not only the prerogative but it is also the duty of the government to limit the amount of profits acquired by any industry.

A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)

Nor does the concept of the Fascist or Nazi dictator appeal to the American liberty loving citizen with his traditional love for democracy and republican institutions which bar both Nazism and Fascism.

A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)

I could have bucked the Government and won — the people would have supported me. But I didn't have the heart left, for my church had spoken. It was my duty to follow, for disobedience is a great sin.

A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)

If I own a shotgun that is no argument why I may kill my neighbor’s child. If I own a factory that is no argument why I may starve the laborers to make profits and profits only for the stockholders. All property is subject to control.

A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)

Are you for the old deal with its industrial dictatorship and its doctrine of laissez faire-ism or are you for a new deal whereby the government shall legislate against unfair competition, against concentration or profits in the hands of stockholders?

A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)

Modern capitalism violates right order because it so employ the working of wage earning classes as to divert business and economic activity to its own advantage without any regard to the human dignity of the workers, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.

A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)

I believe that, in the present state of human society, it is advisable that the hourly wage contract should be abolished. In its stead legislation would be passed by which the laborer would receive an annual wage which would enable him to live in decently and according to the American standard.

A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Coughlin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.