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Communities now find themselves in possession of improvements [resulting from the WPA] which even in 1929 they would have thought themselves presumptuous to dream of... [but] everywhere there had been an overhauling of the word presumptuous. We are beginning to wonder if it is not presumptuous to take for granted that some people should have much, and some should have nothing; that some people are less important than others and should die earlier; that the children of the comfortable should be taller and fatter, as a matter of right, than the other children of the poor.

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We really believed in our hearts that this was the dawn of the new day we had all been praying for and talking about for so many years. We were absolutely certain that we had won the first great victory of the peace.
After the Yalta Conference, 1945

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Give a man a dole and you save his body and destroy his spirit. Give him a job and pay him an assured wage and you save both body and spirit.

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Born: August 17, 1890
Died: January 29, 1946 (aged 55)
Bio: Harry Lloyd Hopkins was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers.

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