Three or four million heads of families don't
turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do
they lose the habits and standards of a
lifetime.... They don't drink any more than
the rest of us, they don't lie any more, they're
no lazier than the rest of us.... An eighth or a
tenth of the earning population does not
change its character which has been
generations in the molding, or, if such a
change actually occurs, we can scarcely
charge it up to personal sin.
-federal relief administrator Harry
Hopkins
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