“Rich people didn’t get in that kind of mess. They never had. Only the poor got trapped: by ignorance, by religion, by self-righteous laws passed by people who broke them with impunity.”

—  Sheri S. Tepper , book Grass

Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 3 (p. 32)

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