Lillian Smith Quotes
What everyone has always wanted in this country, what most came here for, was to get away from all those others who smell bad, are sleeping in a shanty, and are eating fatback and are going to loaf tomorrow because there is no job to go to.
Lillian Smith, Quoted in Nancy Isenberg, White Trash, 2016
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Very often viciousness and prejudice curtails opportunity and openness to possiblilities an can exacerbate economic dislocation.
this quotation illustrates that illegal immigration to the United States is not the desired solution on the point of view of all Mexicans. Many see it as a drain of the best and the brightest—those who are most self actualizing. It was good politics for the mayor can campaign on a program of strengthening the local economy so that people would not have to emigrate.
Referring to the urban poverty in mid-nineteenth century Spain.
This principle has been referred to as The Great Gatsby Curve. See {630975}.
Communications were quite primitive and out of desperation many jobless men would just walk the main road to the next community in hopes of finding work there.
Lillian Eugenia Smith was a writer and social critic of the Southern United States, known most prominently for her best-selling novel Strange Fruit (1944). A white woman who openly embraced controversial positions on matters of race and gender equality, she was a southern liberal unafraid to criticize segregation and work toward the dismantling of Jim Crow laws, at a time when such actions virtually guaranteed social ostracism.
