“"Poverty" Pitt exclaimed "is no disgrace but it is damned annoying." In the contemporary United States it is not annoying but it is a disgrace.”

—  John Kenneth Galbraith , book The Affluent Society

Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 23, Section VI, p. 258

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