I Had Known Poverty Firsthand, But There

I Was There Less Than A Year Before I Was Assigned To The Paris Bureau. I Spent Two Years There And, In Fact, Before I Even Went On The Staff I Was Sent To Europe To Do Assignments Which They Wouldn't Normally Do For A Young Photographer Just Starting Out.

People In Millenniums Ahead Will Know What We Were Like In The 1930's And The Thing That, The Important Major Things That Shaped Our History At That Time. This Is As Important For Historic Reasons As Any Other.

You Know, The Camera Is Not Meant Just To Show Misery. You Can Show Things That You Like About The Universe, Things That You Hate About The Universe. It's Capable Of Doing Both.

I've Been Asked If I Think There Will Ever Come A Time When All People Come Together. I Would Like To Think There Will. All We Can Do Is Hope And Dream And Work Toward That End. And That's What I've Tried To Do All My Life.

You Have A 45mm Automatic Pistol On Your Lap, And I Have A 35mm Camera On My Lap, And My Weapon Is Just As Powerful As Yours. (to Black Panther Militant Eldridge Cleaver)