“Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“The racial wealth gap is not simply a byproduct of racism. It is the *goal* of racism. Racism has always served to maintain a permanent black underclass of unpaid or underpaid labor while wealth/resources are concentrated among a 'white' elite.”— Bree Newsome, twitter.com
“A janitor or a chancellor deserves the same treatment. Never try to figure out who they are by what they’re wearing.”— Michael Tan, opinion.inquirer.net
“The poor can be the most oppressive when dealing with the fellow poor.”— Michael Tan, opinion.inquirer.net
“The buzz word in popular feminism today is empowerment. When I became a feminist many years ago, the word we used was liberation. Unlike empowerment, liberation is a collective concept which means that even if my life is all rosy and ‘empowered,’ it doesn’t mean shit for those women who are doing lo…”— Gail Dines, counterpunch.org
“The biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become. But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a…”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“If you’re trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you’re trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.”— Morrie Schwartz, amazon.com
“Sigmund Freud insisted that love and work were the essential ingredients of healthy human being. Of course he was right. But can love survive the end of work as the willing partner of the good life? Can we let people get something for nothing and still treat them as our brothers and sisters – as mem…”— James Livingston, aeon.co
“I am an enormous optimist for my species; but it will require the elites, from London to Harvard, from Cambridge to Hollywood, to learn the lessons of the past year. To learn above all a measure of humility.”— Stephen Hawking, theguardian.com
“Since there are now more people with a telephone than access to clean water in sub-Saharan Africa, this will shortly mean nearly everyone on our increasingly crowded planet will not be able to escape the inequality.”— Stephen Hawking, theguardian.com
“The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been. Always will be.”— Bill Cunningham, glamour.tumblr.com
“I am sick and tired of watching folks like Boris Johnson, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, and others appeal to the worst racial instincts of our species, only to be shushed by folks telling me that it's not really racism driving their popularity. It's economic angst. It's regular folks tired of being s…”— Kevin Drum, motherjones.com
“The sad irony of all this is that the E.U. was built to prevent the very kind of nationalist fervor its economic mismanagement and political heavy-handedness are provoking now. The dustbin of history exists for a reason. And yet, and yet. It's easy for a generation that has only known peace and rela…”— Matt O'Brien, washingtonpost.com
“Right-wing populists like Pat Buchanan in the United States, Jean-Marie Le Pen in France and Jörg Haider in Austria had scored surprising near-victories, if not actual ones, in the late 1990s and early 2000s by focusing the working class's incipient ire on a "foreign" enemy besides outsourcing: immi…”— Matt O'Brien, washingtonpost.com
“It was the working classes who voted for us to leave because they were economically disregarded and it is they who will suffer most in the short term from the dearth of jobs and investment. They have merely swapped one distant and unreachable elite for another.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“A person of good intelligence and sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it’s not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flav…”— George Carlin, bohology.tumblr.com