Middle Class Quotes

621 Middle Class quotes by 431 unique authors

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and… — Henry Louis Gates
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below… — Henry Louis Gates
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from… — Henry Louis Gates
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's… — Gail Collins
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. — Cyril Connolly
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. — Billy Corgan
In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to… — Angela Davis
What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who… — Angela Davis
I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I… — Beth Ditto
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. — Barbara Ehrenreich
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a… — Rahm Emanuel
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. — E. M. Forster
I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been. — Tom Hardy
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery. — Simon Hoggart
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time,… — Arianna Huffington
I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know? — Vanilla Ice
A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a… — Marcy Kaptur
I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for… — Caroline Kennedy
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of… — Patrick J. Kennedy
I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life. — Shahrukh Khan

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