Harry Hopkins quotes
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“Hunger is not debatable.”
-- Harry HopkinsSource : Harry Hopkins (1977). “Biography by Henry Adams”
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“The things they have actually accomplished all over America should be an inspiration to every reasonable person and an everlasting answer to all the grievous insults that have been heaped on the heads of the unemployed.”
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“Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards of a lifetime... They don't drink any more than the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin.”
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“Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements [resulting from the WPA] which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor.”
-- Harry HopkinsSource : "Spending to Save: The Complete Story of Relief". Book by Harry Lloyd Hopkins, p. 184, 1936.
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“Tax and Tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.”
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“People don't eat in the long run - they eat every day.”
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“I thank God that I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure sometimes is the first step to success and where success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.”
-- Harry Hopkins
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“What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
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“A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.”
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“Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.”
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“Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.”
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Source : Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association
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Source : Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.111, U of Nebraska Press
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