Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.
More Quotes from Harold Evans:
I don't think the pictures and words can be separated, ... If you get an amazing photograph, like the dust clouds blowing over a small town in Kansas, it's not enough to look at the picture (the readers) want to know, 'How did this happen, that half the farming soil of a whole state is blown away' And then you want to know, 'Well, what happened to the people, and what kind of condition were they in It's in the middle of the '30s, and most of them were unemployed, and how did they get out of it Why didn't the politicians act sooner'Harold Evans
By the end of this century, of course, America is the dominant world power, economically and militarily, and it has not only enlarged the freedoms of its own citizens -- which was very circumscribed in 1889 -- but by 1989 it has enlarged the freedoms of millions and millions of people around the world.
Harold Evans
In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
Harold Evans
When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
Harold Evans
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
Harold Evans
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