Stephen Karam Quotes

The American dream is dead for the majority of America.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

… perceptions of poverty have gone up because there’s been rising inequality.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

If you look at European societies since the financial crisis began in 2008, with very, very few exceptions, the differences between rich and poor have increased, and sometimes hugely.

Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

In a city like New York, you're aware of the rich and poor.

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

If you have extremes of haves and have-nots where the gap keeps growing, the have-nots group together and create social disorder, as they can't see a way out of their situation.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

The goatherds were the poorest people of Spain. Probably, they were the richest.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.