Hodding Carter Quote

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Hodding Carter

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

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About Hodding Carter

William Hodding Carter II (February 3, 1907 – April 4, 1972) was an American progressive journalist and author. Among other distinctions in his career, Carter was a Nieman Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner. He died in Greenville, Mississippi, of a heart attack at the age of sixty-five. He is interred in the Greenville Cemetery.