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.

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.

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.

I have been born again and again and each time, I have found something to love.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit.