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Jesus, as we know, answered and said "Get thee behind me, Satan!" And he really meant it; he would have nothing to do with worldly glory, with "temporal power;" he chose the career of a revolutionary agitator, and died the death of a disturber of the peace.

— Upton Sinclair The Profits of Religion (1918)

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I intend to do what little one man can do to awaken the public conscience, and in the meantime I am not frightened by your menaces.

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