Bengal in the early 1930s was a hotbed of anti-British…

With regard to life, modern painting is a revolutionary activity…We need it in order to transform the world into a more humane place where…

— Wifredo Lam

“True revolutionary activity, in my opinion, is that which hurts the establishment without undue damage to the person who does the revolutionary act. You…

— Florynce Kennedy

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the…

— Mark Zandi

“You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by boat and…

— Roald Dahl

Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind…

— Mahalia Jackson

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled…

— Irwin Shaw

Ho Chi Minh was well aware that the enemy possessed more firepower than did his own forces, and sought to use what he viewed…

— William J. Duiker

We're a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the…

— Daniel Fried

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I…

— Noam Chomsky

Working in 3D I didn't experience much of a difference, except that the cameras are very big so they can't be moved around with…

— James Frain

When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a…

— Tom Glazer

As a result of the efforts of Hayek .. and the many others who share his general outlook, the idea of a centrally planned…

— Irving Kristol

It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s. There were…

— Bernie Sanders

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

— Colin Firth

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules…

— Richard Saul Wurman