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.

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.

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

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.

Didn't you read the owner's ma

It's the way a man chooses to limit himself that determines his character. A man without habits, consistency, redundancy - and hence boredom - is not human. He's insane.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a nonconventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you...

To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

I imagine the world dividing into the people who want to feed their children, and the ones shooting at them.

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.