Relief Effort

Famous quotes containing the words relief and/or effort:

    “[T]he late Samuel McChord Crothers, genial wit and essayist, ... after listening to the speeches at a certain Harvard Commencement remarked that he gathered that the world had been in great danger, but that all would now be well.”
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.”
    —Max Lerner (b. 1902)