Robert Moses shifted from building to improve people's lives to pursuing projects despite opposition and evicting potentially hundreds of thousands of people.

“a young, idealistic guy who wants to build to make lives better, better for people, to give them access to the ocean, beaches and all, changes into someone who just wants to build because he thinks something should be built no matter what anyone else says, and is gonna do it no matter how many thousands, hundreds, thousands of people he has to evict.”