"I now see Norman Thomas as indeed a liberal, but as a real, old-fashioned, unreconstructed liberal who believes in freedom and justice for everybody."

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Source : Dwight Macdonald (1974). “Discriminations: Essays & Afterthoughts”

Norman Thomas

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“If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.”
“Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.”

Source : Song: Ding Dong, Ding Dong, 1974
“I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.”
“One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.”
“The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.”
“I love the stories that have come before, that we know of. I think for me it's always more interesting to start from square one and you take the fundamental pillars of the character and, around that, try to create something new and different.”
“A lot of times when you have very short-term goals with a high payoff, nasty things can happen. In particular, a lot of people will take the low road there. They'll become myopic. They'll crowd out the longer-term interests of the organization or even of themselves.”
“People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.”

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