"Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness"

Source : Randall Robinson (2001). “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks”, p.171, Penguin

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