“They said I was a bum. A wild, untamed kid who came swinging out of the Wild West to fight in the saloons, ride the rods, make a buck any way I could. What is a bum? If being badly educated, owning one ragged shirt and a pair of patched pants and having holes in my shoes makes a man a bum, I was a bum. But I went hungry for days rather than steal. I begged, humbly, for any kind of job to earn a flop and a meal. I never was a bum bum. I was a starving kid, wandering in search of food, sometimes almost like an animal, living as best I could and with the weapons of survival God gave me. My fists. And I guess my chin.”
JACK DEMPSEY
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