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"A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who are wiser than they are, even if they are only a tiny sliver of the population."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

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"That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is."

"Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more."

"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."

"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."

"I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me."

"It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress."

"I just yesterday returned from a trip where I photographed a woman with two children whom I photographed first when she was the age of the older of the two children."
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