they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist
nation, without knowing how it happened.
Quote by: Norman Thomas (1884-1968) six-time U.S. Presidential candidate for the Socialist
Party of America
Source: 1948 - from an interview during the presidential campaign,
[Liberty Tree Ed. note: Norman Thomas and Gus Hall, the U.S. Communist Party Candidate,
both quit American politics, agreeing that the Republican and Democratic parties by 1970 had
adopted every plank on the Communist/Socialist and they no longer had an alternate party
platform on which to run.]
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/norman_thomas_quote_ffb1
Norman Thomas is a name that has come up recently, about "a cause not yet won," but ostensibly taken up by:
Do you wonder what cause? From the Princeton University yearbook, by means of the blog of Steven Waldman in Beliefnet.