Middle Class Quotes - Page 14

• IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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• The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich.

  Robert Reich

  Class, America, Long

  "Why We Must Raise Taxes on the Rich" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2011.

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• The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.

  Katsuya Okada

  Class, Progress, Depth

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• The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Mother, Men, Class

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• Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.

  Steven Moffat

  Country, Apology, Men

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• One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, America, Victory

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• There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Class, America

  Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

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• As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

  Henry Adams

  Class, America, Boredom

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Ernest Samuels, Charles Vandersee (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams”, p.200, Harvard University Press

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• Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Running, Class, People

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• As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.

  John Sweeney

  Strong, Children, Commitment

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• The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.

  John Mortimer

  Class, Luck, Middle

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• Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster the delusion that the choice of a wife or husband may be governed by a certain number of accurately weighable pros and cons. This is a crude delusion on the part of common sense.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Marriage, Husband, Men

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• Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Mean, America, Rights

  Shonda Rhimes (2015). “Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Moving, Class, Parent

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• The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Class, Middle, Proletariat

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• An up-close portrait of middle-class Nigeria exploring the boundaries of morals and public decorum. Pitched between humor and despair, with stripped-down, evocative prose, A Bit of Difference bristles with penknife-sharp dialogue, but its truths are more subtle, hiding in the unspoken. Ultimately, A Bit of Difference explores – with a hint of mischief–the problem of how to look like you have no problems when you have abundant problems–the universal problem of the socially-motivated classes.

  Nii Parkes

  Class, Differences, Despair

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• If they are ignored, [Alice] Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. 'Until they begin interfering with the rights of middle-class people,' she says, 'you won't have anybody crying about it. But by then, it will be too late.'

  Ben Ehrenreich

  Rights, Class, People

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• The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the middle class. When you destroy a currency by creating money out of thin air to pay the bills, the value of the dollar goes down, and people get hit with a higher cost of living. It's the middle class that's being wiped out. It is most evil of all taxes.

  Ron Paul

  Cost Of Living, Air, Class

  Ron Paul at GOP primary debate at the Maytag Auditorium in Johnston, Iowa, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

  Marty Meehan

  Government, Years, Class

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• I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.

  Susan Bysiewicz

  Wall, Frustration, Class

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• Hunger justifies the middle classes.

  Julien Torma

  Class, Hunger, Middle

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• In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Class, United States, Republican

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.361, Regnery Publishing

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• There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.

  Pope Francis

  Class, Saint, Holiness

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ”, p.85, Loyola Press

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• Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad

  Denis Leary

  Mom, Talking, Class

  FaceBook post by Denis Leary from Aug 29, 2012

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• In God’s great plan, every detail is important, even yours, even my humble little witness, even the hidden witness of those who live their faith with simplicity in everyday family relationships, work relationships, friendships. There are the saints of every day, the “hidden” saints, a sort of “middle class of holiness” to which we can all belong.

  Pope Francis

  Humble, Class, Work Relationships

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ”, p.85, Loyola Press

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