Class Quote by Malcolm X

That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting…

— Malcolm X

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?

— Malcolm X

I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called…

— Jon Kyl

Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely…

— Fran Lebowitz

The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense of permanence.

— Tom Junod

You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The amount of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

— Nita Ambani

“the term “middle class” concealed a fact long true about this country, that, as Richard Hofstadter said: “It was . . . a middle-class…

— Howard Zinn

My middle class values are intact.

— Paresh Rawal

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we…

— Philippe Coutinho

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you…

— Henry Louis Gates