#middle class

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist. ↗

— Stephen Carter

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I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. ↗

— Billy Corgan

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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

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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#application #business #class #conscientious #jewish

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. ↗

— William Nicholson

#class #compassion #lives #merit #middle

For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

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We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class! ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

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With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress will work in a bipartisan way to lift our economy and help America's middle class. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

#america #american #american dream #bipartisan #chance