Michael Harrington

Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.

— 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

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.

— Michael Harrington