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"Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along."
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"If you believe that discrimination exists, it will."
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"Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."
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"Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination."
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"A tree is an incomprehensible mystery."
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"The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law."
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"Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy."
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"Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America."
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"The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased."
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"This will be Iraq for all without discrimination among Iraqi citizens, or ethnic or sectarian discrimination."
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"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."
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"So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way."
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"But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived."
Time
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Freedom
"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."
Career
"There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know."
People
"I'd become sort of involved in things that were happening to people. No matter what color they be, whether they be Indians, or Negroes, the poor white person or anyone who was I thought more or less getting a bad shake."
Thought
"I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing."
Life
"The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can't walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they're really - the important people are the people he photographs."
People
"And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start."
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"At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it."
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