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  • Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world.That'swhy it almost alwayshastobe onthesideof the underdog.

    - Grace ne  e  Goodside Paley
      In Ms magazine.

  • You can't teach an underdog new tricks.

    - Adlai E(wing) Stevenson
    On presidential hopeful Estes Kefauver's replay of his anti- bossism theme. Quoted in Newsweek,1 Nov1971.

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