Life is lived in common, but not in community.
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Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.Michael Harrington
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
Michael Harrington
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
Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
Michael Harrington
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
Michael Harrington
People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.
Michael Harrington
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