Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

Tom Joad

The Grapes of Wrath

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Fighting for justice Poverty Hunger

Speaker

Tom Joad

Actor

Henry Fonda

Source

The Grapes of Wrath

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Citation

The Grapes of Wrath. Directed by John Ford. 20th Century Fox, 1940.

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I doubt whether any of these people, with their academic or dogmatic hatred of war, detest it as much as I do. They probably have not seen the bodies rotting on the ground and smelled the stench of decaying human flesh...What separates me from the pacifists is that I hate the Nazis more than I hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Topic
Pacifism and nonviolence War

Author

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Medium
Letter
Language
English
Time
1943 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Eisenhower, Dwight D. Letter to Arthur Eisenhower. 2 July. 1943.

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Please, sir, I want some more.

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist

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Topic
Soup Poverty Charity
Speaker
Oliver Twist

Author

Charles Dickens
Source
Oliver Twist
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1837 1830s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Dickens, Charles. "Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress." Bentley's Miscellany. London: Richard Bentley, Feb. 1837, issue 1, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. Penguin, 2003, ch. 2.

Another quote from 1940

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

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Topic
Nature of power

Author

Simone Weil
Language
French
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Weil, Simone. "L'iliade ou le poeme de la force [The Iliad, or The Poem of Force]." Les Cahiers du Sud, 1940.

Current Citation

Weil, Simone. "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force." Simone Weil: An Anthology, translated by Sian Miles. Grove Press, 2000.

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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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John Keating
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Dead Poets Society
Medium
Film
Genre
Teen (film) Drama (film) Teen Drama
Statement Type
Question
Language
English
Time
1989 1980s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.