"The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one’s birthright of membership in the great human family. "
Maybe it is part of the reason that we leave places like Africa with mixed feelings: we hurt for the poverty felt by the people, but are simultaneously jealous of the joy and community that so eludes us.
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great quote... it is so true.
Maybe it is part of the reason that we leave places like Africa with mixed feelings: we hurt for the poverty felt by the people, but are simultaneously jealous of the joy and community that so eludes us.
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