Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
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If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.Michael Harrington
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.
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One cannot raise the bottom of society without benefitting everyone above.
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For the most part, everyone's in the same area on price -- everyone knows basically where the number should be and is a little above or below for whatever reason. You need to work with somebody you can trust. I'd say look for someone who will be honest with you right up front. That tells me I'm not going to have problems in the long run.
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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.
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