Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class… — John Green Copy Share Image
There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Essentially what my campaign is about, it's about anything, this is saying we've got bring that money back into the middle class… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the… — Henry Flynt Copy Share Image
My parents say it all began with my role of Percy the Polar Bear back in nursery school! I began dance classes… — Francesca Jackson Copy Share Image
It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
There are many in East Asia who simply judge students on the basis of national tests. The top universities in the United… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or… — Kavita Ramdas Copy Share Image
When journalists and politicians speak of a dwindling middle class that's under economic assault and a poor community that's getting bigger, they're… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
All over America there is to be found a large and growing class of earnest, intelligent, progressive colored women . . .… — Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin Copy Share Image
Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who… — Nur Muhammad Taraki Copy Share Image
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me.… — Doug Harvey Copy Share Image
There's the National Organization for Women feminist faction, there's the NAACP liberal African-American faction, there's the La Raza Hispanic faction. They're pitted… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
The class situation [at Art Institute on Elmwood Avenue] was such that one would be very much on their own to paint… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
The problem is that affirmative action could never really get at the issue of corporate power in the workplace, and so you… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I didn't think it sounded so much different than anyone else's voice until I got to the broadcasting school, and I raised… — Robin Quivers Copy Share Image
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling.… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Republican and Democratic parties, or, to be more exact, the Republican-Democratic party, represent the capitalist class in the class struggle. They… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There's a weird… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
In Shakespeare Saved My Life, [author Laura Bates] said she got better papers from [prisoners] than she got from people in her… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies… — Charlie Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it… — John Bartholomew Gough Copy Share Image