Middle Class Quotes - Page 22

• The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

  Bernie Sanders

  Change, America, Class

  "|Bernie and Larry Sanders: brothers form quixotic cross-Atlantic political 'dynasty'" by Jessica Glenza, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2015.

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• Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations and people that must be worked
  with as one would work with any other part of our populations - with respect, understanding, and sympathy.

  Saul Alinsky

  Class, Organization, People

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.189, Vintage

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• I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.

  Marco Rubio

  Education, Fashion, Jobs

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• Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.

  Carol Browner

  Color, Class, Community

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• Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.

  Andrew Evans

  Retirement, Class, Republic

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• This country is facing an economy that has been radically transformed.And these changes have been disruptive. They have changed people's lives. The jobs that once sustained our middle class, they either don't pay enough or they are gone, and we need someone that understands that as our nominee.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Jobs, Class

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have dropped, the gains in income for the middle class and the least advantaged have slowed, at best.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Usa, Class

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We need a Republican Party that shows up on the South side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs, 'We are the party of jobs and opportunity! The GOP is the ticket to the middle class.

  Rand Paul

  Jobs, Party, Opportunity

  "Obama takes shots at 2016 Republicans over middle class brand". www.businessinsider.com. February 20, 2015.

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• I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Egypt, Class, Conservative

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• Hillary Clinton wrote an Op-Ed for a paper in Iowa about her plans to help the middle class. Middle-class Americans said, 'Why didn't you just say that in a speech?' and she said, 'Because I charge $200,000 for a speech.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  Iowa, Class, Paper

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• In the course of the twenty-first century what may be called the "capital wage" could be added to the labor wage and the social wage, so that middle-class Americans - not merely an affluent minority - might derive income from three sources rather than just two.

  Michael Lind

  Wisdom, Class, Two

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• We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that one indispensable nation. Because we're taking care of our own people, because our economy is strong and our middle class is growing, and people feel like hard work is rewarded, and we are continuing to expand opportunity and diversity and tolerance and respect.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Hard Work, Opportunity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

  David Bowie

  School, Class, Ideas

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.31, Melville House

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• We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have to make some hard decisions. But the decisions we make are to prioritize the middle class.

  David B. Axelrod

  Country, Decisions We Make, Class

  "Bill Clinton, campaign strategists, Colo. Senate debate". Meet the Press Netcast, www.nbcnews.com.

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• The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

  Grayson Perry

  Thinking, Objectivity, Class

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• While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Struggle, Fighting, Class

  "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. August 14. 2011.

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• Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.

  Ron Paul

  Class, Dollars, Poor

  "End the Fed". Book by Ron Paul, September 16, 2009.

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• I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Hurt, Drama, School

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• I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

  Suresh Raina

  Class, Actors, Able

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• I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.

  Suresh Raina

  Real, School, Class

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• In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Karma, Believe, Class

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• Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

  Cesare Pavese

  Class, People, Behaviour

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• Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

  Katherine Mansfield

  Class, Sense Of Humor, Middle

  Katherine Mansfield (2011). “Bliss”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Struggle, Thinking, Class

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Taken, Class

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