“In 1929, I believed that the way to bring in a new world was basically – virtually exclusively – a matter of ’social engineering,’ changing ‘the system,’ economic, political, social. Today I recognize that we neglected too much the problem of what happens inside the human being. Whether there can be a democratic society, for example, depends in the final analysis upon what human beings are, whether they are capable of making moral decisions….”

A.J. Muste  from “The True International” in The Essays of A. J. Muste