"The poor man's conscience is clear; yet he is ashamed...He feels himself out of the sight of others, groping in the dark. Mankind takes no notice of him: he rambles and wanders unheeded. In the midst of a crowd, at church, in the market...he is in as much obscurity as he would be in a garret or a cellar. He is not disapproved, censured or reproached: he is only not seen...To be wholly overlooked, and to know it, are intolerable."
John Adams, 1790
No one, with an intact conscience and a spiritual belief, can look a poor man in the eyes without feeling shame...for one to have so much and one to have so little is an afront to the human spirit and to the Creater.
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