“When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if y...” — Ben Shahn Quote

When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.

It used to be twelve people crowded around a sewing table; now it's ten.

I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on.

So, I was offered this job to come down there but first it was suggested that I take a trip around the country in the areas in which we worked to see what it's all about, and I tell you that was a revelation to me.

Hip flexibility is genetic to a degree, and the most gifted hitters have won both the genetic and mechanical lottery.

I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I'm doing.

It's time we recognize that going into the trades is just as impressive, and in fact can be just as lucrative, as a 4-year degree.

I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.