Middle Class Quotes - Page 28

• When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight.

  Richard Benjamin

  Moving, White, Class

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

  J. K. Rowling

  Class, Hypocrisy, Competition

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.

  Charles Landry

  Technology, Order, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all?

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Fighting, Years

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Oct 31, 2015

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• I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Teacher, Children, Class

  "Selma’s Lorraine Toussaint on Motherhood, a Childhood of ‘Silent, Dark Terror’ and Award Season Buzz". Interview with Caroline Presno, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2014.

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• The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to care and nobody asked their opinion in any case. Only the middle class mattered and any half-witted ruler knows how to pamper them.

  Anand Neelakantan

  Class, Long, Care

  Anand Neelakantan (2012). “ASURA: Tale of the Vanquished”, p.73, LEADSTART PUBLISHING PVT LTD

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• I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.

  Tavis Smiley

  Struggle, Average, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

  Tavis Smiley

  Dad, Struggle, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The sanctions and travel restrictions would have to be far more comprehensive to be truly painful for [Vladimir] Putin and his inner circle. And the new middle class should also feel the effects of what he is doing. For instance, we should ask those who wish to enter the EU whether they have visited illegally occupied Crimea in the last few months and, if the answer is "yes," deny them a visa.

  Garry Kasparov

  Class, Circles, Wish

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But nothing has been asked of them in this horrendous recession. And it's time we just ask.

  Joe Biden

  Patriotic, Class, People

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• So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Years

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• Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment, and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make fortunes. They have increased the comforts of the middle classes. But they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny, which it is in their nature and in their futurity to accomplish.

  John Stuart Mill

  Destiny, Class, Numbers

  John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of political economy, with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.314

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• War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.

  George Carlin

  War, Men, Class

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• The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people.

  Bertrand Russell

  Class, People, Facts

  Bertrand Russell (2017). “Marriage and Morals”, p.69, Routledge

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• The public is ready now for a safety net for the middle class, something not just for the poor, but for everyone who will need help, from time to time, in order to own a home, educate their kids, keep themselves healthy or have something to retire on.

  Barney Frank

  Home, Kids, Order

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• The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

  Martin Amis

  Witty, Thinking, Class

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• The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Class, White, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Hocus Pocus”, p.27, Random House

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• The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.

  Paul Samuelson

  Children, Memories, Doors

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• I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

  JR

  Class, People, Together

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• The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.

  Salman Rushdie

  Class, Progress, History Of Life

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Lying, Winning, Class

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• I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

  Kinky Friedman

  Country, Home, Class

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.102, Macmillan

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• I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never really had money.

  Pat Burrell

  Thinking, Blue, Class

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• Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

  Neal Stephenson

  Class, Water, Doe

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• For some reason, politically there's a distinction between cocaine and crack. Cocaine is not a felony conviction because it's used by middle class and wealthy people. Crack, which is used by people in South Central, carries a felony conviction.

  Nick Broomfield

  Class, People, Cracks

  Source: collider.com

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