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

Tom Joad

The Grapes of Wrath

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Topic

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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France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.

Charles de Gaulle

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Charles de Gaulle
Source
To All French
Medium
Poster
Language
French
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

De Gaulle, Charles. A Tous Le Francais [To All Frenchmen]. 3 Aug. 1940.

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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

William Graham Sumner

Sociology

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Topic
Public policy Poverty

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William Graham Sumner
Source
Sociology
Medium
Essay
Genre
Sociology
Language
English
Time
1881 1880s 19th century
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Citation

Sumner, William Graham. "Sociology." The Princeton Review, May 1881.

Another quote from 1940

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Winston Churchill

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World War II British empire
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Winston Churchill
Source
Their Finest Hour
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Their Finest Hour." House of Commons meeting. 18 June 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Alone: Their Finest Hour." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

Another quote from the following genre Drama

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Friedrich Schiller

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Topic
Thinking vs. doing
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Wilhelm Tell

Author

Friedrich Schiller
Source
Wilhelm Tell
Medium
Play
Genre
Drama (play) Drama
Language
German
Time
1804 1800s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

Schiller, Friedrich. Wilhelm Tell [William Tell]. 17 Mar. 1804, Weimarer Hoftheatre (now Deutsche Nationaltheatre Weimar), Weimar, Germany, act 3, sc. 1.