Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London

"Sure thing," Bert continued. "That's the very point. We're the
losers. We've ben robbed. We couldn't mark cards, deal from the
bottom, an' ring in cold decks like the others. We're the white
folks that failed. You see, times changed, and there was two
kinds of us, the lions and the plugs. The plugs only worked, the
lions only gobbled. They gobbled the farms, the mines, the
factories, an' now they've gobbled the government. We're the
white folks an' the children of white folks, that was too busy
being good to be smart. We're the white folks that lost out.
We're the ones that's ben skinned. D'ye get me?"