I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You come to realize people are not simple.
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.
For most of history, almost everyone was poor. Power and wealth belonged to only a few.
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.
I'm a simple man. Grew up in a small town. Came from humble beginnings. No silver spoon.
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.