I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated.

There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings profit only to employers. The object of employing children is not to train them, but to get high profits from their work.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.

In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show.

Photography is an empathy towards the world.

Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph

I have always been more interested in persons than in people.

If you can take photographs with language, I'm taking one right now.

While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.

You can’t say you love man as an individual if you have not dealt with the person’s complex personality, his or her unfamiliar habits, disturbing impulses and biological makeup.

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

When you're as great as I am it's hard to be humble.

Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

Our freedom is under attack. Our economy is under water. The leading democrat is under investigation. And America is under the gun to lead the free world to protect our civilized way of life.

Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.