Al Hunt Quotes

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

Leaders of the business community ... have chosen to wage a one-sided class war today in this country - a war against working people, the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the very young and the very old. .

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

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

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

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.

Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

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.

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

There are only two families in the whole world, my old grandmother used to say, The Haves and the Have-Nots.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.

All down history, nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding corn for the remaining one-tenth, been paid with the husks, and bidden to thank God they had the husks.

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.

In a morally adjusted economy ... the rich should not get richer if the poor get poorer.

There are no great lords who possess everything and a herd of people who have nothing