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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Another quote from the 1940s

Winning isn’t everything...It’s the only thing.

Henry R. "Red" Sanders

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Winning
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Henry R. "Red" Sanders
Language
English
Time
1948 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Sanders, Henry R. Quoted in L.A. Times. 18 Oct. 1950. Originally spoken to the Quarterback Club. Luncheon. 1948, Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Another quote about Poverty

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

Author

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

It is a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it: if you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other you are very likely to get what you want.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Topic
Getting what you want

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W. Somerset Maugham
Language
English
Time
1940 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. "The Treasure." The Mixture as Before. William Heinemann/Doubleday Doran, 1940.

Another quote from the following genre Drama

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

Atticus Finch

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Empathy Different perspectives
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Atticus Finch
Actor
Gregory Peck
Source
To Kill a Mockingbird
Medium
Film
Genre
Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Citation

To Kill a Mockingbird. Directed by Robert Mulligan, Brentwood Productions, 1962.