You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.
Upton SinclairYou don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.
Upton SinclairIt is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
Upton SinclairWe define journalism in America as the business and practice of presenting the news of the day in the interest of economic privilege.
Upton SinclairThey were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?
Upton Sinclair