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title: "4 Muckraking Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“He acknowledged that in the muckraking days, he would have shared their anger and quit, but his thinking had changed since the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-hartshorn/he-acknowledged-that-in-the-muckraking-days-he-would-have-shared/)

[Peter Hartshorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-hartshorn/)

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> [Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's muck, we ought to rake it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/every-good-newspaper-is-muckraking-to-some-degree-it-s-part-of-our/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Sinclair’s was also an age when writers, both journalists and novelists, were experiencing a thrilling sense of their own efficacy. The investigative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/upton-sinclair/sinclair-s-was-also-an-age-when-writers-both-journalists-and/)

[Upton Sinclair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/upton-sinclair/)

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> [Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-griffith/anderson-s-muckraking-is-one-of-debatable-ends-constantly-used-to/)

[Thomas Griffith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-griffith/)

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