Great depression Quote by Thom Hartmann

“As Elizabeth Blackmar and Ray Rosenzweig wrote in their magisterial history of [Central Park in NYC]: 'The issue of demoncratic access to the park…

— Rebecca Solnit

“In the fall of 1930, fifteen million Americans were out of work. President Herbert Hoover didn’t do much to alleviate the crisis. Self-reliance, he…

— Consuelo Saah Baehr

My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal &…

— Ira Sachs

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto…

— Quincy Jones

Detroit in its heyday - let's say, 1920s to the '60s - was never a huge downtown-living thing. People lived in the neighborhoods.

— Dan Gilbert

Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the…

— Cleve Jones

In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show…

— Arundhati Roy

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the…

— Cathy O'Neil

“Hoffa and his Strawberry Boys’ victory in 1932 was a rare labor victory in those days. In that same year a group of World…

— Charles Brandt

Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of…

— David Maraniss

“The volunteers merely dropped in for a summer, then went home to question America. Some would spearhead the events that defined the 1960s—the Berkeley…

— Bruce Watson

J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeting, I think, in 1957. It was interesting to…

— Terence Winter