Quotes from book
The Other America

The Other America is Michael Harrington's best known and likely most influential book. He was an American democratic socialist, writer, political activist, political theorist, professor of political science, radio commentator, and founding member of the Democratic Socialists of America. He believed that American Socialists could support certain Democratic Party candidates, including candidates for President.
Source: The Other America (1962), Ch. 5, sct. 1
“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: The Other America (1962), Appendix, sct. 1
Source: The Other America (1962), p. 71
Context: 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 be the most profound disability that the United States imposes upon a citizen.
Source: The Other America (1962), p. 170
Source: The Other America (1962), p. 168
Source: The Other America (1962), p.81
Source: The Other America (1962), Ch. 2
Source: The Other America (1962), Ch. 2
Source: The Other America (1962), Ch. 1, sct. 1