Social Critic

🇬🇧Charles Dickens

Literature

literary realism

1719–1793

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

🇺🇸Thomas Mann

Literature

"The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed."

🇫🇷James Baldwin

Social Activism

1924–1987

"Audio files of speeches and interviews at UC Berkeley"

🇺🇸H. L. Mencken

Literature

1880–1956

"School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers."

🇬🇧T. S. Eliot

Literature

modernist literature

1888–1965

"What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."

🇺🇸Edmund Wilson

Literature

1895–1972

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."

🇺🇸Dick Gregory

Entertainment

1932–2017

"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that."

🇺🇸James Baldwin

Literature

1924–1987

"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

🇺🇸Jane Addams

Social Activism

socialism

1860–1935

"Civilization is a method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all people."