No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, whi… - George Davis Herron

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No longer is it possible for men to be content to have, while their brothers have not. The physical misery of the world's disinherited is becoming the spiritual misery of the world's elect. Superior privileges of any sort now carry with them the sense of shame.

George Davis Herron

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George Davis Herron (1862 – 1925) was an American clergyman, lecturer, writer, and Christian socialist activist.

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