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 th… - Michael Harrington

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

If, as is quite possible, America refuses to deal with the social evils that persist in the sixties, it will at the same time have turned its back on the racial minorities. There will be speeches on equality; there will be gains as the nation moves toward a constitutional definition of itself as egalitarian. The Negro will watch all this from a world of double poverty. He will continue to know himself as a member of a race-class condemned by heredity to be poor.

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.