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One of the facts of history is that battles do not stay won. Those that matter have to be waged again and again.

— Stanley Knowles The New Party (1961)

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What shall it profit us, unless life in the midst of it all has meaning? When a society spends more on advertising than it does on education, where is it headed?

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Ideas change the world, but they do it by assuming shape, they do it by taking concrete form.

The New Party (1961)

Workers do not try to prevent employers from making contributions to political parties the workers do not support.

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Education is still starved. It is the cornerstone of any civilized society and the sharpest sword in the defence of freedom, but it is still the step child of governments and corporations alike.

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Plan-less profit-seeking as practiced by the West cannot match the planned export policies of the East.

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