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.

Edward Michael "Mike" Harrington (February 24 1928 – July 31 1989) was an American democratic socialist writer political activist political theorist professor of political science radio commentator and initiator of the Democratic Socialists of America. During the 1970s he invented the term neoconservatism.