Quote of the week: 'One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth....'

From Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, chapter 24, "The Coming Revolt of the Guards":

"One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country."