Michael Harrington

"Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal has become a conservative force in American life. In saying this, I do not intent for a moment to dismiss the enduring significance of the social and political struggles …"

"To be sure, the other America is not impoverished in the same sense as those poor nations where millions cling to hunger as a defense against starvation. This country has escaped such extremes. That d…"

"Negro poverty is unique is every way. It grows out of a long American history, and it expresses itself in a subculture that is buit up on an interlocking base of economic and racial injustice. It is a…"

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

"The laws against color can be removed, but that will leave the poverty that is the historic and institutionalized consequence of color. As long as this is the case, being born Negro will continue to b…"

"America needs a majority party of the democratic Left. This is not a proposal for a tightly disciplined party on the old European model . It is simply a recognition of the fact that, to solve problems…"

"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."

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