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“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”

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A. J. Muste was a prominent American social activist, born on January 8, 1885, and died on February 11, 1967. He dedicated his life to the causes of peace, labor rights, and socialism, tirelessly fighting for justice and equality. more

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