Charles A. Reich

Quotes

• “One of the problems with fame … is they try to pigeonhole you… like I’m stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.”
• “If there was any doubt about the need for social transformation in 1970, that need is clear and urgent today. … I am now more convinced than ever that the conflict and suffering now threatening to engulf us are entirely unnecessary, and a tragic waste of our energy and resources. We can create an economic system that is not at war with human beings or nature, and we can get from here to there by democratic means.”
• “My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.”
• “America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.”
• “We seem to be living in a society that no one created and that no one wants.”
• “To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the right to seek his own happiness; a republican form of government in which the people would be sovereign; and no arbitrary power over people's lives. Less than two hundred years later, almost every aspect of the dream has been lost.”

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