Privileged Group Quotes
He was one of the early writers to observe that the rich of most areas and nations had more in common that they did with their poor fellow citizens in their own country.
This famous charity political dinner is annually attended by the very wealthy. While the Republican party at this time had the wealthy as one of its constituents, it had been considered politically tactful not to make public statements about the party and the wealthy. Bush was not very tactful and the quotation was widely circulated to middle class and poor citizens who resented Bush’s point of view and his wording using “haves” and “have-mores” Others appreciated the humor.
Due to the 6 to 1 male to female ratio in the American Colonies, women were in a very good position to marry whom they chose and often married “above their station”. This quote is the dialogue of a lower class colonial window who inherited American land as a result of her husband’s death. In the play she marries twice above her station each time accumulating more and more wealth. Although this was a play, it was based on Bacon’s Rebellion and life in the American colonies around 1690.
