Michael Harrington
Socialist writer (1928 to 1989) whose The Other America (1962) showed that tens of millions of Americans lived in a poverty the affluent majority could not see, and helped prompt the War on Poverty.
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Their wordsThe other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before.
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Their wordsPoverty is often off the beaten track.
↗The Other America (Penguin, 1968 printing of the 1962 book)archive.org All 4 from this book
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Their wordsThat the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them.
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Their wordsTo be poor is not simply to be deprived of the material things of this world. It is to enter a fatal, futile universe, an America within America with a twisted spirit.
↗The Other America (Penguin, 1968 printing of the 1962 book)archive.org All 4 from this book