Prestonia Mann Martin Quotes
No harm is done by the possession of Luxury by some people if only at the same time EVERYBODY HAS ENOUGH. The wrong incurred by the rich toward the poor lies solely in the fact that while they revel, the poor starve
This was written in 1933 one of the worst years of the Great Depression. Actualy many upper middle calss and rich people were ruined themselves by the Great Depression, but at the same time the ultra rich were living in a "gildd age" and reveled ostentatiously.
Prestonia Mann Martin, Prohibiting poverty; suggestions for a method of obtaining economic security, 1933 HD31 .M3 1933c
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See {34743} or {33971} for a more colorful and eloquent statement of the same notion.
Most people who hear this quote for the first time assume that it originates with some radical socialist of the 1930s. However it came from a President of the United States and a Republican President at that. Few scholars will place this quotation correctly.
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