Men Poor Quote by Kurt Vonnegut
““Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor.””
““Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor.””
![“I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind, and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women [...]: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.” quote by Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/24a/charlotte-bronte-144_caste_i-could-not-see-how-poor-people-had-the_2266560.jpg)
![“The wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted… [All that wise and good men can do is] to persevere in doing their duty to their country and leave the consequences to him who made men only; neither elated by…” quote by John Jay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e7b/john-jay-31836_success_the-wise-and-the-good-never-form-the-maj_3217497.jpg)
![“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on the subject of human liberty.” quote by Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/73a/kurt-vonnegut-41_freedom_thomas-jefferson-high-school-his-high-sc_9727.jpg)
