"A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb."

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Source : BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

Betty Smith

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