Quotes by Michael Harrington

• Life is lived in common, but not in community.
• 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.
• Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
• If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
• It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.