“To those… who see in certain underlying economic forces, the source of nearly all of our distressing social evils, individual hatred and malice can make in reality no appeal.”

—  Robert Hunter (author)

Source: Violence and the Labor Movement (1914), p.xii

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American sociologist, author, golf course architect 1874–1942

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