Top Middle-Class Quotes
We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.
Bruce Sterling
Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
Charles Schumer
What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.
Charlie Sheen
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
Lewis H. Lapham
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
Kathleen Blanco
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I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.
Betty Buckley 
54% of people like this quote
The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more.
Dora Russell
53% of people like this quote
We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.
Charles Schumer
53% of people like this quote
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
Barack Obama
52% of people like this quote
Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.
Jack Kingston
50% of people like this quote
I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.
Redd Foxx
50% of people like this quote
Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people?
Gilles Duceppe
50% of people like this quote
The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.
Julian Bond
49% of people like this quote
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
George Bernard Shaw
48% of people like this quote
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George Bernard ShawBarack ObamaWillie StargellCharles SchumerTim McGrawWilliam Makepeace ThackerayCharlie SheenBruce SterlingJack KingstonJulian BondArianna HuffingtonRory Bremner
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