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Norman Thomas

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Also known as Norman Mattoon Thomas

American Presbyterian minister and socialist (1884-1968)

Person · Open Library

Born
1884
Died
1968
Works
16

Top works

  • Socialist Movement Project
  • Emancipate youth from toil, old age from fear
  • Is the New Deal socialism?
  • Why I am a socialist
  • In the League and out

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
NO
Active from
1980-07-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
47
Total plays
416

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Quotes

  • The heretic may be very irritating, he may be decidedly wrong, but the attempt to choke heresy or dissent from the dominant opinion by coercing the conscience is an incalculable danger to society. If war makes it necessary, it is the last count in the indictment against war.
  • Fascism glorifies both militarism and war. It is as surely a menace to the peace as to the liberty of mankind.
  • After I asked him [a student] what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement. No decent society can tolerate that definition.
  • [B]oth the communist and fascists revolutions definitely abolished laissez-faire capitalism in favor of one or another kind and degree of state capitalism. In neither form, fascist or communist, did the masses, through any sort of democratic process, either as workers or citizens, control the basic means of production and distribution .
  • The similarities of the economics of the New Deal to the economics of Mussolini's corporative state or Hitler's totalitarian state are both close and obvious.
  • In no way was Hitler the tool of big business. He was its lenient master. So was Mussolini except that he was weaker.

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