"Shame at our own dependence on the underpaid labor of others. When someone works for less pay than she can live on--when she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently--then she has made a great sacrifice for you. The working poor are the major philanthropists of our society."

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

"Capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes."

"Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America. Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun."