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Michael Harrington (1916–1999) was a Newfoundland and Labrador educator, writer, historian and broadcaster. He served as editor-in-chief at The Telegram for the period 1959–1982. Harrington was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. He attended Memorial University College, where he founded the first student newspaper. He became the first graduate of Memorial University (B.A., 1951) after its elevation to a degree-granting institution. In addition to working variously in publishing, writing and broadcasting, Harrington briefly entered politics. He was elected to the 1946 Newfoundland National Convention, and then ran for the Conservatives in the first general election held after confederation. Although he was not elected, he continued to be active in public life throughout his career, volunteering with many heritage and educational organizations in Newfoundland. Harrington was honoured with many awards, including the Order of Canada, and an honorary doctorate from Memorial University.

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“Clothes make the poor invisible.... America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”
— Ch. 1, sct. 1
“Life is lived in common, but not in community.”
— Ch. 7, sct. 4
“If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.”
— Appendix, sct. 1
“Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.”
— Ch. 5, sct. 1
“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.”
— p. 71

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Notable quotes

“Clothes make the poor invisible.... America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.”
— Ch. 1, sct. 1
“Life is lived in common, but not in community.”
— Ch. 7, sct. 4
“If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment.”
— Appendix, sct. 1
“Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.”
— Ch. 5, sct. 1
“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.”
— p. 71

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Michael Harrington

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Michael Harrington across IJR

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Michael Harrington across IJR