The Uprooted Quotes

“They would say then, if they considered it in looking backward, that the village was so much of their lives because the village was a whole.”
― Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People

“In America a bread never came without complications.”
― Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People

“The condition of man is to till the soil; there is no other wholeness to his existence.”
― Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People

“Poverty was a dog whose teeth sank deep.”
― Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People