Middle Class Quotes - Page 28

• My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

  John Piper

  Christian, Real, Class

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• Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

  Graham Greene

  Prayer, Men, Class

  Graham Greene (1982). “A Burnt-Out Case”, Viking Adult

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• My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.

  Kate Atkinson

  Father, School, Class

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• This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

  Susan George

  Erosion, Class, Gaps

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• There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

  Mike McCurry

  Party, Struggle, Class

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• There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

  William Nicholson

  Compassion, Class, Merit

  "William Nicholson: middle classes not fashionable for books or TV dramas". The Telegraph Interview, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 12, 2011.

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• One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

  Scott Walker

  Class, Opponents, Middle

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• I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion."

  Tom Hardy

  Nice, Thinking, Class

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the middle class is shrinking, the gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider. That speaks to the weakness of the opposition. People do not like George W. Bush. But I think it's fair to say that they are not flocking to the Democratic Party, or see the Democrats as a real alternative.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 1, 2005.

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• My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

  Bernie Sanders

  Hard Work, Class, Able

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.

  Michael Medved

  College, Years, Class

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• It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Our Generation, Class, America

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3365, e-artnow

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• If you don't try to generate more revenues through tax reform, if you don't ask, you know, the most fortunate Americans to bear a slightly larger burden of the privilege of being an American, then you have to - the only way to achieve fiscal sustainability is through unacceptably deep cuts in benefits for middle class seniors, or unacceptably deep cuts in national security.

  Timothy Geithner

  Senior, Cutting, Class

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• Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess only an adapted, that is to say marvelously simplified Christianity. A god who in his love arranges everything in a manner that in the end will be best for us; a god who gives to us and takes from us our virtue and our happiness, so that as a whole all is meet and fit and there is no reason for us to take life sadly, let alone exclaim against it; in short, resignation and modest demands elevated to godhead

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Class, People, Giving

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• Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

  Oliver DeMille

  Class, Leader, Political

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• We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.

  Lindsey Graham

  Jobs, Class, America

  Lindsey Graham at GOP primary debate at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado, time.com. October 28, 2015.

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• We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

  Lindsey Graham

  Government, Class, Long

  Lindsey Graham at GOP primary debate at the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder, Colorado, time.com. October 28, 2015.

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• I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.

  Lindsey Graham

  Strong, War, Winning

  "Republican Candidates "Undercard" Debate in Boulder, Colorado". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 28, 2015.

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• The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

  Richard Benjamin

  Atlanta, Class, People

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• 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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