“After I asked him [a student] what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement. No decent society can tolerate that definition.”

— Norman Thomas

"A Legacy for the Young from Norman Thomas", Life Magazine, Mar 14, 1969

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American Presbyterian minister and socialist 1884–1968

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