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is an invisible group. In contrast to the old rhetoric of reform, they are not simply neglected and forgotten... what is much worse, they are not seen.

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. Michael Harrington

is much like being crippled --- 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 society.

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 society.

is not merely an area or decrepit buildings. It is a social fact. It becomes truly pernicious when it becomes the environment or the culture of poverty, a spiritual and personal reality for its inhabitants as well as an area or dilapidation.

A slum is not merely an area or decrepit buildings. It is a social fact. There are neighborhoods in which housing is run - down, yet the people do not exhibit the hopelessness or the other Americans. Usually, these places have a vital community life around a national culture or a religion. In New York City, Chinatown is an obvious example. Where the slum becomes truly pernicious is when it becomes the environment or the culture or poverty, a spiritual and personal reality ror its inhabitants was well as an area or dilapidation. This is when the slum becomes the breeding ground of crime, or v ice , the creator or people who are lost to themselves and to society. The Other America

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