Depression Quote by Ella Baker

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

— Samuel Gompers

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

— Bob Cousy

I was born and raised during Depression Years when we were on County relief and we all went out and we hustled. we worked.…

— Liberace

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

I've lived through the Great Depression.

— Carl Reiner

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got…

— Clint Eastwood

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

— Luke Ford

As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from…

— Samuel Alito

“THE "depression" was a blessing in disguise. It reduced the whole world to a new starting point that gives every one a new opportunity.”

— Napoleon Hill

In 2013, I went through a really great depression.

— Israel Adesanya

The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds…

— Ben Bernanke

I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement…

— Ben Shahn