Community Quote by J. Robert Oppenheimer

“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

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have…

— Sargent Shriver

The main thing that triggered my depression was my isolation that was imposed on me by becoming the wife of the prime minister, and…

— Margaret Trudeau

“Men were taught to have so much pride, to go out into the world and make something of themselves. This Depression was deeply humiliating.…

— Heather O'Neill

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

During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.

— Ella Baker

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

I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

— Bob Cousy

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

— Adolf Hitler

Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made…

— Florynce Kennedy

Depression taught me the importance of compassion and hard work, and that you can overcome enormous obstacles.

— Rob Delaney