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Orestes Brownson Quotes

1803–1876

Orestes Brownson (1803–1876) was an American intellectual, activist, preacher, labor organizer, and writer.

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The middle class is always a firm champion of equality, when it concerns humbling a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

Wages is a cunning device of the devil, for the benefit of tender consciences, who would retain all the advantages of the slave system, without the expense, trouble, and odium of being slave-holders.

There is no question that education has been more generally diffused than it was in the middle ages, but it is doubtful if the number of thinkers has been increased, or real mental culture extended. Education loses in thoroughness and depth what it gains in surface.

Liberalism and Progress (1864)

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