“Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?”

—  Charles A. Reich , book The Greening of America

Source: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter XII : The Greening Of America, p. 356

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