Famous quotes containing the words america and/or scandal:
“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.”
—Michael Harrington (1928–1989)
“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
—George Farquhar (1678–1707)