People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.

I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Photography was my choice of weapons.

Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small.

I think most people can do a whole lot more if they just try.

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.