"Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living……" — Hubert H. Humphrey

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• Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next… — Ray Charles
• The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own… — Samuel Johnson
• The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve… — Lyndon B. Johnson
• There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and… — Henryk Skolimowski
• A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for… — Ludwig von Mises
• It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it… — J. William Fulbright
• It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state… — Thomas Paine
• A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control… — Joan Didion
• It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned… — Rich Mullins
• From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a… — John Kenneth Galbraith
• The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to… — Henri Lefebvre
• I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time. — Dallin H. Oaks

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