Carolyn Chute Quotes

If there is a class war—and there is—it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

In 1750, 75 percent of people on the planet worked to support the top 25 percent.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

The prime culprit in causing contemporary social inequality seems to be merit.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

Of the 1 Percent. By the 1 Percent. For the 1 Percent.

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Class still matters in Britain today.

We live in a very unequal society.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

It's not an underclass anymore; it's an outer class.

Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit, to society, and scattered with equal hand throughout all its conditions.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

We have two American flags always; one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it, it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it, it means danger, revolution.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

The ignorance of the working class and the superior intelligence of the privileged class are superstitions fostered by ... universities and churches, and by all the centers of privilege.

The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs;