It seemed to Steve as though there was something deeply and inherently wrong about HYDRA being good for the world in any way. But if there truly wasn't any segregation, if there wasn't any poverty, then how could he deny those were good things? He knew poverty, knew it intimately in the way that only someone who had lived through the Depression with no money could know it.

He would never want anyone to live that way.

For a moment he just sat, shoulders slumped, before shaking his head with determination. "That doesn't mean the world doesn't need to be changed. I bet some people said the same when there were slaves, that the country was prosperous and life was good. But things can change, whole establishments can change, and the few good things can be carved out and taken along for the ride. I'm not going to give up."