Betty Smith Quote

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.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (ed. 1943)

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;...

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;...

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;...

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;...