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“I want you to stop being subhuman and become 'yourself'. 'Yourself,' I say. Not the newspaper you read, not your vicious neighbor's opinion, but 'yourself.' I know, and you don't, what you really are deep down. Deep down, you are what a deer, your God, your poet, or your philosopher is. But you think you're a member of the VFW, your bowling club, or the Ku Klux Klan, and because you think so, you behave as you do. This too was told you long ago, by Heinrich Mann in Germany, by Upton Sinclair and John Dos Passos in the United States. But you recognized neither Mann nor Sinclair. You recognize only the heavyweight champion and Al Capone. If given your choice between a library and a fight, you'll undoubtedly go to the fight.”

Groups Identity Individuality Peers Mob Orgone Emotional Plague Subhuman Upton Sinclair John Dos Passos Heinrich Mann

Book:Listen, Little Man!

Source: Listen, Little Man!

“Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.”

Jobs Challenges Difficulty Conquer The Jungle Upton Sinclair Jurgis Packingtown

Book:The Jungle

Source: The Jungle

“Dieve--but I'm glad I'm not a hog.”

The Jungle Upton Sinclair Jurgis Packingtown

Book:The Jungle

Source: The Jungle

“Yet there have been known to be philosophers and plain men who swore by Malthus in the books, and would, nevertheless, subscribe to a relief fund in time of a famine. It was the same with Jurgis, who consigned the unfit to destruction, while going about all day sick at heart because of his poor old father, who was wandering somewhere in the yards begging for a chance to earn his bread.”

Malthus The Jungle Upton Sinclair

Book:The Jungle

Source: The Jungle