Michael Harrington
“Here is the most familiar version of social blindness: ‘The poor are that way because they are afraid to work. And anyway they all have big cars. If they were like me they could pay their own way. But they prefer to live on the dole and cheat the taxpayers.’ "
“Those who suffer levels of life well below those that are possible, even though they live better than medieval knights or Asian peasants, are poor.”