Rockwell Kent Quotes
When I was a young fellow I was very much disturbed by there being some people with lots of money and lots of people with no money.
Kent came from a very affluent family,
Rockwell Kent, 1882-1971, Artist, Unsuccessful Candidate of the American Labor Party for Congressman, Lenin Peace Prize Winner, Explanation of his political activism, Quoted in Smithsonian, August 2000
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The Supreme Court had ruled that there could be no limits placed on the amount of money that could be spent by a rich company or person to campaign for a candidate. It would deny them their right to freedom of speech. That was the context of Hollings’ remark.
The “competition of the poor included the political and social activism competition.”
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
The same greatest issue was still before the people a century later. See {633217} , {635104} & {630538}.
The crisis of inequality of income and wealth has occurred seven times in American history.
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.
Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager.
