“If it be true that doctrines have naught to do with the spread of terrorism, why is it that among many million socialists there are almost no terrorists, while among a few thousand anarchists there are many terrorists?”

— Robert Hunter (author)

Source: Violence and the Labor Movement (1914), p. 91

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American sociologist, author, golf course architect 1874–1942

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