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“The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.”

—Upton Sinclair

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Lithuanians go to Chicago and realize that they don’t like it there.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

—Upton Sinclair

“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.”

—H.L. Mencken (Letter to Upton Sinclair, October 14, 1917)

Happy Birthday, Upton Sinclair

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“We'll have none of that constitution stuff.”

—Officer that arrested Socialist Upton Sinclair for reciting the Bill of Rights 1923.

“ It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

—Upton Sinclair

“That's the rule they apply to all the world - if anything goes wrong with you, it must be your own fault. It's a land of equal opportunity." "And you'll notice," said the organiser, "that the more privileges people have had, the more boldly they talk that way.”

—Upton Sinclair, King Coal
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