Family Quote by Thomas Sowell

“It was against this backdrop that the great fortunes were made, fortunes which allowed the first families to dominate the society of that era.…

— David Halberstam

“Carl Bridenbaugh’s study of colonial cities, Cities in the Wilderness, reveals a clear-cut class system. He finds: The leaders of early Boston were gentlemen…

— Howard Zinn

“referencing that self-imposed simplicity favored by New England Protestants who respect everything about wealth other than its uses.”

— Amor Towles

“James and the other eight children of 'Superior Dosset,' of whom there are still five alive, may be said to have represented Victorian England,…

— John Galsworthy

“When Winthrop defended the colony, he wanted to create a religious community that would be saved from the “corrupted” bastions of learning, Oxford and…

— Nancy Isenberg

“A cultural chasm between the giver and the given-to made many of the poorest unwilling to ask for help: if bread, clothing, boots, medical…

— Sarah Wise

“The state funneled money to private academies for white students.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

“The poor we have always with us, and the purpose of the Lord in providing the poor is to enable us of the better…

— Sinclair Lewis

“Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby.  They made him out to…

— Charles Dickens

“I read and talked into the microphone and was gracious to the local rich, the English faculty and the college president, and the students…

— Adam Begley

“The last year had been an education in how little having money really mattered. A rich Vagabond was a Vagabond still, and ’twas common…

— Neal Stephenson

“In April, Bradford had decided that each household should be assigned its own plot to cultivate, with the understanding that each family kept whatever…

— Nathaniel Philbrick