Upton Sinclair Quote

In the course of my twenty years career as an assailant of special privilege, I have attacked pretty nearly every important interest in America. The statements I have made, if false, would have been enough to deprive me of a thousand times all the property I ever owned, and to have sent me to prison for a thousand times a normal man's life. I have been called a liar on many occasions, needless to say; but never once in all these twenty years has one of my enemies ventured to bring me into a court of law, and to submit the issue between us to a jury of American citizens.


The Brass Check (1919)


In the course of my twenty years career as an assailant of special privilege, I have attacked pretty nearly every important interest in America. The...

In the course of my twenty years career as an assailant of special privilege, I have attacked pretty nearly every important interest in America. The...

In the course of my twenty years career as an assailant of special privilege, I have attacked pretty nearly every important interest in America. The...

In the course of my twenty years career as an assailant of special privilege, I have attacked pretty nearly every important interest in America. The...