“Clothes make the poor invisible…. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”
Source: The Other America (1962), Ch. 1, sct. 1
"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem" in Esquire (July 1960); republished in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son (1961)
“Clothes make the poor invisible…. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”
Source: The Other America (1962), Ch. 1, sct. 1
Source: Healing Our World: In An Age of Aggression, (2003), p. 92
From The Goad, the Flames, the Arrows and the Mirror of the love of God
1960s, Address to Local 815, Teamsters and the Allied Trades Council (1967)
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