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Michael Harrington, an American writer and social activist, is best known for his work highlighting poverty in the United States. His book The Other America played a key role in raising awareness about the persistence of poverty and its effects on American society. Harrington's advocacy for social reform and his focus on the need for economic justice made him a significant voice in the fight against inequality. His legacy inspires those who seek to address the root causes of social issues and work towards creating a fairer, more just society.
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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, People, Act, Poor
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"If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery."

Society, Misery
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"Life is lived in common, but not in community."

Life, Community
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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."

Old, Poor, Reform, Rhetoric
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"Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known."

Appearance, America, Clothes, Poor, Poverty
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