"Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture."

-- Herbert Gutman

#Eight Quotes #Class Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.”
“The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.”
“But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.”
“Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel.Â 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss.Â Keep integrity at every cost,”
“Life is precious and relationships are precious. I'm a great believer in family.”
“Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.”
“No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.”

Source : Israel Zangwill, Edna Nahshon (2006). “From the Ghetto to the Melting Pot: Israel Zangwill's Jewish Plays : Three Playscripts”, p.288, Wayne State University Press

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