That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen.
—Michael Harrington
Topics: Wealth, The Poor, Poverty
Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
—Michael Harrington
Topics: Fashion, Dress
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.
—Michael Harrington
Topics: Technology
Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than submit to the desolation of an empty abundance.
—Michael Harrington
Topics: Simplicity
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
—Michael Harrington
Topics: Aspirations
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