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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 975
AUTHOR: Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)
QUOTATION: I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctor—to develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
ATTRIBUTION: HENRIK IBSEN, An Enemy of the People, English adaptation by Max Faber, act II, p. 28 (1970). Mr. Hovstad is speaking.
SUBJECTS: Labor