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An active conscience is a formidable thing.

— Morris Schappes

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To lead for the common good is to undermine the effectiveness of anti-Semitic propaganda.

Minorities, Unite! (1944)

Words must be backed by deeds.

The main principle of a democracy is that the rights of any one group, be it minority or majority, are connected with the rights of all groups.

Minorities, Unite! (1944)

From the founding of our nation there has been a continual, many-angled struggle between these who would sacrifice the public need to their private wills and fortunes, and those who have fought to extend the boundaries of the public interest.

As Marxists, we stress the need of bringing the mask for privilege and the mask for frustration into their proper relationship. In this way the ruling class can be shown to be exploiting those it frustrates by diverting their resentment onto a scapegoat who is innocent of frustrating them and whose sacrificial slaughter, therefore, cannot release them from their frustration.

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The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.

Horace Mann Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1867)

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