WHO WAS NORMAN THOMAS ???

NORMAN THOMAS...Was born in 1884 in Marion Ohio and died in 1968 he graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1905. after graduation he decided to become a minster like his father He enrolled in Union Theological Seminary a center of the Social Gospel movement and liberal politics, He graduated from the seminary and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911 and as a minister, Thomas preached against American participation in the First World War & was shunned for his views. He resigned his pastorate when funds stopped for the churches Social programs. Despite his resignation, But Thomas did not leave the ministry until 1931, after his mother's death. It was Thomas's position as a conscientious objector that drew him to the Socialist Party of America After joining SPA he joined the Socialist Party about 1917 Thomas also became a Christian Socialist he was also one of the founders of the National Civil Liberties Bureau, the precursor of the American Civil Liberties Union. After Eugene V. Debs's death in 1926 He started running for POTUS as the Socialist Candidate and would end up running 6 times between 1928 - 1948 . Thomas was also an early proponent of birth control. & was a supporter of Genocidal Racist founder of Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger 

NORMAN THOMAS'S PROPHETIC QUOTE FROM 1944 "There are some plain common-sense considerations applicable to all these attempts at world planning. They can be briefly stated: 1. To talk of blueprints for the future or building a world order is, if properly understood, suggestive, but it is also dangerous. Societies grow far more truly than they are built. A CONSTITUTION FOR A NEW WORLD ORDER is never like a blueprint for a skyscraper."

"The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly"

"I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won."