Cracks Quote by William A. Rusher
“One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the housing projects that they were putting up for the poor were going to turn into crack dens and rapists' bowers and things of that sort, which they have since become. But you can't always foresee the future. I'm sure their intentions were the best.”
![“And if something came along that didn't sound so good, it perhaps didn't always get out there as it should have. But given the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] had the help, nonetheless she knew how to use it. And she used it very effectively.” quote by William A. Rusher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ab3/william-a-rusher-20922_eleanor_and-if-something-came-along-that-didn-t_2274311.jpg)
![“That was a general impression that one got, that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was always flitting around the country and descending on some place in the Ozarks that she decided was disadvantaged, and announcing that something had to be done. And she had a very active social conscience, which I think in…” quote by William A. Rusher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa0/william-a-rusher-20922_active_that-was-a-general-impression-that-one-g_1572497.jpg)
![“[Public housing projects] are not lacking in natural leaders,' [Ellen Lurie, a social worker in East Harlem] says. 'They contain people with real ability, wonderful people many of them, but the typical sequence is that in the course of organization leaders have found each other, gotten all…” quote by Jane Jacobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f6c/jane-jacobs-1991_68_public-housing-projects-are-not-lacking_2422878.jpg)
![“I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] never was called because she probably didn't know an awful lot. The whole burden of the criticism of her on the subject of Communism is naiveté, not participation. And again, being a public figure and our representative at the UN, there was nothing Communist about…” quote by William A. Rusher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c01/william-a-rusher-20922_awful_i-think-she-eleanor-roosevelt-never-was_1605673.jpg)
