The abject sullenous of poverty ...

Unmasking the worst of society´s ills ... the apathy of human beings

"George’s red body, already a little squat with the burden of thirty years, knotted like oakwood, in its clean white cotton summer union suit that it sleeps in; and his wife’s beside him, Annie Mae’s, slender, and sharpened through with bone that ten years past must have had such beauty, and is now veined at the breast, and the skin of the breast translucent, delicately shriveled, and blue . . . and the tough little body of Junior, hardskinned and gritty, the feet crusted with sores; and the milky and strengthless littler body of Burt whose veins are so bright in his temples".


... James Agee (1909-55), American author. excerpt from his epic prose "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"  describing the sharecropper family he was living with as part of a study of poverty in the southern states during the Great Depression.