"We define journalism in America as the business……" — Upton Sinclair
"We define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege."
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Upton Sinclair
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37 Quotes by Upton Sinclair
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open…
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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every…
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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
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The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of art for art's sake than a…
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The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon…
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The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on…
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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.
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You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the…
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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the…
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Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness,…
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