America Is in the Heart

“It is for the workers that we must write,” he said weakly. “We must interpret their hopes as a people desiring the fullest fulfillment of their potentialities. We must be strong of voice, objective of criticism, protest and challenge. There is no other way to combat any attempts to suppress individual liberty….”

I find escape in books, and also discovery of a world I had not known before….”

It was like going to war with other soldiers; some survived death but could not survive life.

Why was America so kind and yet so cruel?

I saw his eyes and I knew that the philosophers lied when they said death was easy and beautiful. I knew that there was nothing better than life, even a hard life, even a frustrated life. Yes, even a broken-down gambler's life. And I wanted to live.

far as I know he had never written anything until he arrived in this country;

stalked out of the place in high dudgeon.

is is really the meaning of life: the extension of little things into the future so that they might be useful to other people.”

but in this other world—new, bright, promising—we would be unable to meet its demands.

knew that no man could destroy my faith in America that had sprung from all our hopes and aspirations, ever.