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Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.

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Above All, Do Not Give Up Your

C. Wright Mills

Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.

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It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. it is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. and it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. to secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.

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Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. the real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

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