"The awareness of the all-surpassing importance of social groups is now general property in America."

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“History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.”

“These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.”

“Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.”

“Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.”

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