Quotes by Michael Harrington

About Michael Harrington:

Edward Michael "Mike" Harrington 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. During the 1970s he coined the term neoconservatism.
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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

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.

Michael Harrington

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

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

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Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.

Michael Harrington

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

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

Author Bio

  • NameMichael Harrington
  • DescriptionAmerican political writer
  • BornFebruary 24, 1928
  • DiedJuly 31, 1989
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionAuthor
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; George Polk Award