“...I could not help but feel moved by the plight of these poor people. Perhaps it was not correct, politically speaking, for me to feel sympathy for them, but my mother would have been one of them if she were alive. She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.” WarPoorPovertySympathyPoor PeopleVietnam WarVietnamese Book:The Sympathizer Source: The Sympathizer
“Even poor people in America had refrigerators, not to mention running water, flush toilets, and twenty-four-hour electricity, amenities that even some of the middle class did not have back home. Why, then, did I feel poor?” AmericaPoorPovertyPoor PeopleAmericans Book:The Sympathizer Source: The Sympathizer
“No one asks poor people if they want war. Nor had anyone asked these poor people if they wanted to die of thirst and exposure on the coastal sea, or if they wanted to be robbed and raped by their own soldiers.” WarPoorPoverty Author:Viet Thanh Nguyen