I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute fa… - Max Eastman

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I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

Max Eastman

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Max Forrester Eastman (January 4, 1883 – March 25, 1969) was an American writer on literature, philosophy and society; a poet, and a prominent political activist. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, he co-founded in 1917 The Liberator, a magazine of politics and the arts.

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