"Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation."

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"I am not a... leader. I don't want you to follow me or anything else. If you are looking for a Moses to lead you out of the... wilderness, you will stay right where you are. I would not lead you into this promised land if I could, because if I could lead you in, someone else could lead you out."

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"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."

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"I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it."

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"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution."

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"Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least."

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"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong."