"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
Irving Babbitt, Harvard-educated philosopher
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus, poet
“All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour...and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it.... If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.”
Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle
