Warren Buffett Quotes

We have a chance for racial solidarity because all of us, unless you're in the top 1 percent, are really struggling in this economy.

Poor people always lose in struggles.

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

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.

History shows that when you have continuing income inequality it is an invitation to class conflict.

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

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.

Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?

BRAZILIFICATION:The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle classes.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.

Income and wealth inequality have reached obscene levels, the threat of climate change is more frightening than ever, and the billionaire class is now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money to buy the candidate they want. And it is up to us to stand up and fight back. If we stand together, there is no limit to what we can accomplish.

As long as there's anybody that's poor or middle class, there will not be satisfaction that there are rich people. Not 'til we get rid of all the rich can we say we have finished the job.

The class war is over.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

I watched the Republican debate. At one point, the candidates said there are no classes in America, a point then hotly debated by all six rich white guys that were there.

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

I identify with the 99 per cent.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.