"Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse"

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“New Light on the 'Sweatshop Cinderella'”

“The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.”

“undergraduate paper on Yezierska's The Fat of the Land”

“Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut—a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.”

“Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.”

“Anzia Yezierska and the Popular Periodical Debate Over the Jews”

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"In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in the long run, is the easiest."

— Henry Miller

Literature1891–1980

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"The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes. As in the case of the Negro, women themselves have often been brought to believe in…"

— Gunnar Myrdal

Economics1898–1987

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"Conservatism... means we take the things that we know work and we keep... and maintain them. ...f you want to try something new... you're careful... you're cautious... you're skeptical of it. If it tu…"

— David Cay Johnston

Economics1948

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"You never know what a man—or a woman—has inside: how much grit, how much courage, how much willingness to change. When someone draws on those qualities, you're looking at a person of substance. And po…"

— Victoria Moran

Literature1950

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