Quote by Gunnar Myrdal
"The persistence of poverty in affluent societies reflects not economic necessity but moral failure."
More from Gunnar Myrdal
"The basis of all human cooperation is the willingness to see the other person as fundamentally like oneself."
"An inequality of capacities does not justify an inequality of freedom."
"Social problems are moral problems."
"The American Dilemma is the ever-raging conflict between the American ideals and American practices."