Friday's Quote for the Day

Back around 1936, James Agee and Walker Evans traveled to Alabama to report on the fate of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. What they found there was so striking to Agee that his assigned several thousand word essay evolved into a several hundred page book called Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, illustrated with many of Walker's own moving photographs of the people they met. Here's a quote from the book, which is worth reading in its entirety if you ever get the chance:

"In every child who is born, under no matter what
circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the
potentiality of the human race is born again: and in
him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific
responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost
idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God."