Jesse Andrews Quotes

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.

We need wealthy dogs off the seats of power. They're taking us back to feudalism and I really don't want that. But I'm very far from being a socialist.

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

Why did the world ever become so unequal?

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing.

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

Class warfare is being waged in America, and the wrong side is winning.

I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.

I think that there always have been and always will be at least two Americas - the poor America, the second America, tends to be in the shadows. Sometimes it's an America of people in a ghetto of color, sometimes it's an economic ghetto, but definitely there is a parallel America which people in the dominant America prefer to ignore if they can.

People don't like other poor people, and rather than blame the people that make you all poor, you blame each other.

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

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.

Poor whites have been pitted against poor blacks to assuage the conscience of the affluent.

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

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

God help the rich, the poor can look after themselves

The rich have all the speech they want; the poor have lockjaw.

An elite has prospered with our kinds of institutions, but the same cannot be said of the masses.

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere.

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

If the upper classes, through their political representatives, pass legislation that diminishes the income of the middle class and reduces services to the poor and further enrich the affluent, this is not class warfare. But if the middle class and the poor, and their representatives, complain that this is unfair, that is class warfare. So say some of our politicians who oppose class warfare.