"Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society."
― Hubert H. Humphrey
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Society
― Hubert H. Humphrey
More From Hubert H. Humphrey
- "Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate."
- "The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."
- "I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known."
More In Society
- "If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that there’s no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream."― Jonathan Kozol
- "Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?"― Honore de Balzac
- "Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."― Lena Horne