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bookofjoeabout 22 hours ago
fragmedeabout 21 hours ago
> The point is that fellow citizens can look each other in the eye. Writing during the Great Depression, the banker-turned-writer James Truslow Adams coined the term the “American Dream” to describe a “better, richer, and happier life” for all Americans. He wrote of “the way that everyone of every sort looks you right in the eye, without a thought of inequality”. Adams observed that Americans shared a kind of mutual dignity.

Damn.