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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.

— Charles Coughlin A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)

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I believe in upholding the right to private property but in controlling it for the public good.

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

A Series of Lectures on Social Justice (1935)

I believe in nationalizing those public resources which by their very nature are too important to be held in the control of private individuals.

I oppose modem capitalism because by its very nature it cannot and will not function for the common good. In fact, it is a detriment to civilization.

Must the entire world go to war for 600,000 Jews in Germany who are neither American, nor French, nor English citizens, but citizens of Germany?

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