Middle Class Quotes - Page 24

• Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

  John F. Kerry

  Fighting, Class, Special

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• I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Real, Struggle

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• My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world from fascism, came home and built the great American middle class, led the way in the civil rights movement, protected our environment, and created great programs like Medicare.

  John F. Kerry

  Dad, War, Home

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• In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.

  Jessica Mitford

  Fashion, Media, Class

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• Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

  Diana Vreeland

  Class, Dull, Boring

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• We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.

  Christopher Lasch

  Ghetto, Order, Class

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

  Margaret Halsey

  Class, Feelings, Levels

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Money, Numbers, Years

  "The Professor". Interview with Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2012.

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• They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.

  Rosellen Brown

  Money, Class, People

  Rosellen Brown (1998). “Civil Wars”, Delta

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• 70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now a number of other countries with as much or more opportunity than ours. In fact, more people in Canada go on to surpass the income of their parents than in the United States.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Rubio Delivers Address on 50th Anniversary of the 'War on Poverty'". www.rubio.senate.gov. January 08, 2014.

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• One of the things I really learned from my first term is the importance of focusing. In that sense, it is a deliberate effort. What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether its good for the middle class or not.

  Dan Maffei

  Class, Effort, Priorities

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• Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.

  Dwight Garner

  Soccer, Teaching, Book

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• I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Gratitude, Negative Words, Class

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• It took me a while to figure it out, but to have a real hit on Broadway, you have to get the respected Broadway people to like it. But then the production also has to appeal to the most middle-class people who know nothing about Broadway and who come to see it later.

  John Waters

  Real, Class, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Class, Issues

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Class, Population, Razors

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

  Dale Spender

  Class, White, Middle

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• I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

  Matt Damon

  Country, Strong, Believe

  "Matt Damon: man of the people" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2013.

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• We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work

  James Fallows

  Reality, Class, Long

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• It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish and abound. For the good opinion of our fellow-men is the strongest though not the purest motive to virtue. The privations of poverty render us too cold and callous, and the privileges of property too arrogant and confidential, to feel; the first places us beneath the influence of opinion--the second, above it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Class, Feelings

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• If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

  Bill Vaughan

  Nice, Thinking, Class

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• I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

  Eric Idle

  Boys, Class, Hats

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• Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Men, Class, People

  "Breaking Bad" Q&A: Star Giancarlo Esposito Discusses the Season Finale". Interview with Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 9, 2011.

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• Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

  Benjamin Lewin

  Struggle, Class, Self

  "Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2013.

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• We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

  George Noory

  Class, Government, Giving

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