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"But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm."
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"Miracle centered gospels do more damage than good to the listeners and nation."

"That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one."

"No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit."

"I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see."
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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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