The rich survive and everyone else gets ready to work 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 jobs and what do you get? Blade… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't believe that government should… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of… — Branko Milanovic 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
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
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
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“The “rising tide” theory rested on a notion of separate but equal class ladders. And so there was a class of black… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class,… — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I've had it up to here with this notion that 47 percent...it's about time they take some responsibility here. And instead of… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
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The TPP is another corporate-backed agreement that is the latest in a series of trade policies which have cost us millions of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
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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… — Timothy Geithner Copy Share Image
I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
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They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The Bible affects everybody's life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia.… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o 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
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
The Great Depression, they come out with the New Deal, black people didn't have access to those government stimulus packages. The New… — Eric Reid 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
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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 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
“A young woman: “As a white middle class person I’ve never felt discriminated against at all. But I’ll say this: If anyone… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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