Gustavus Myers
Gustavus Myers (March 20, 1872 – December 7, 1942) was an American journalist and historian who published a series of highly critical and influential studies on the social costs of wealth accumulation.
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[edit]- It is one thing to commit crimes against property, and a vastly different thing to commit crimes in behalf of property. Such is the edict of a system inspired by the sway of property.
- History of the Great American Fortunes, vol. 1 (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1909), pt. 2, ch. 5 (p. 217). Quoted in Albert E. Kahn, High Treason: The Plot Against the People (New York: Lear, 1950), bk. 2, ch. 6, epigraph (p. 77)
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