Quote by Eric Hoffer
We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need publ

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails. – Eric Hoffer

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Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a mans spirit than when we win his heart. – Eric Hoffer

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Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. – Eric Hoffer

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Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down. – Oscar Romero

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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. – Edward R. Murrow

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While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. – Eugene Debs

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The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners. – Agnes Smedley

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Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. – Sophie Swetchine

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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. – George Bernard Shaw

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If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you. – Peter Marshall

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