Outsiders Quotes by Oscar Handlin

“In America a bread never came without complications.”

— Oscar Handlin

“The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless when critics…

— Oscar Handlin

In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

— Oscar Handlin

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

— Oscar Handlin

“The condition of man is to till the soil; there is no other wholeness to his existence.”

— Oscar Handlin

“Poverty was a dog whose teeth sank deep.”

— Oscar Handlin