If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoveri...shment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination....... After the racist statutes are all struck down, after legal equality has been achieved in the schools and in the courts, there remains the profound institutionalized and abiding wrong that white America has worked on the Negro for so long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the ...old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to... the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »