Awards and Recognition
- 1978 – Bust of Eric Hoffer by sculptor Jonathan Hirschfeld; commissioned by Charles Kittrell and placed in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
- 1983, February 13 – Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by Ronald Reagan.
- 1985, September 17 – Skygate unveiling in San Francisco; dedication speech by Eric Sevareid.
- 2001, January 1 – The Eric Hoffer Award for books and prose launched internationally.
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“No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)