Michael Harrington Quote

The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us.... The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation.


The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962), ch. 1


The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of...

The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of...

The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of...

The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of...