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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.

Source: The Other America, ch. 5, sct. 1, 1962.
-- Michael Harrington, (Feb 24 1928-1989), US writer; He was a noted leftist author who awakened the U.S. to American poverty in The Other America, 1962; Taking Sides, 1965.

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