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

— Michael Harrington The Other America (1962)

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It is an intolerable irony that societies that are anything but socialist should thus define what socialism is in the eyes of so many. It is an irony that has to be undone.

Socialism: Past and Future (1989)

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

The Other America (1962)

Socialism, I want to propose, is the hope for human freedom and justice under the unprecedented conditions of life that humanity will face in the twenty-first century.

Socialism: Past and Future (1989)

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

The Other America (1962)

The rise of Communist states - dictatorship with centrally planned, nationalized economies - did more to distort and confuse the meaning of socialism than any other event in history.

Socialism: Past and Future (1989)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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