James East (October 7, 1871 – June 23, 1940) was a politician and labour activist in Alberta, Canada. He was for a time and the longest-serving alderman in Edmonton's history, and was a defeated candidate at the provincial and federal levels. He was also an ardent monetary reformer.
Read more about James East: Early Life, Municipal Politics and Expulsion From Office, World War I, Return To Municipal Office, and Federal Politics, Out of Office, Resurgence, and Final Defeat, Death
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“Of course you’re always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you’ll condemn them all!”
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“The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-in house, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.”
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