… is from page 42 of Morgan Reynolds’s May 1984 interview with W.H. Hutt, as this interview appears in W.H. Hutt: An Economist for the Long Run (Morgan O. Reynolds, ed., 1986); here Hutt answers a question that Reynolds put to him about his – Hutt’s – 1964 book, The Economics of the Colour Bar:
But I wanted to build from the bottom up. I wanted the poor people to come up, and to get opportunities. They should be refused no employment opportunities which were ever available to them, no matter what harm their accepting employment might cause for people better off than they are.