Michael Harrington Quotes on poverty

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 society

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Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.

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