Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Harrington

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Last updated on April 22, 2025.

Edward Michael Harrington Jr. was an American democratic socialist. As a writer, he was perhaps best known as the author of The Other America. Harrington was a political activist, theorist, professor of political science, and a radio commentator. Harrington was a founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America, and its most influential early leader.

American - Writer | February 24, 1928 - July 31, 1989

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Life is lived in common, but not in community.

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.

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

Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Harrington

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