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Michael Harrington [1928-1989] American

Rank: 105
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Edward Michael "Mike" Harrington, Jr. was an American democratic socialist, writer, author of The Other America, political activist, political theorist, professor of political science, radio commentator and founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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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.	Society	101
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.		102
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.		103
It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.		104
Life is lived in common, but not in community.		105
Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.		106

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