Middle-class Quotes
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Most power just looks like an easier-than-average life. It’s so built-in that people mostly don’t realize how powerful they are. Like, the average middle-class person in the US is one of the 3 percent richest people in the world. Thus, they’re probably one of the most powerful people in the world. But, to them, they feel completely average.
Hank Green
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When I grew up, I realised what an amazing thing my parents did. It was such a big deal for my mom, a middle class woman, to decide to leave her children and husband to go and do her Ph.D. for three years. And my dad, who is even more middle class, a traditional South Indian, to let his wife do that.
Swara Bhaskar
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For too long, people in Washington and Congress point fingers at each other, even as millions of middle-class Americans remain unemployed and our economy continues to sputter. They must realize that we are all in this together, and I respectfully submit that the best way to remind Congress of this is to tie their pay to their collective results.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.
Ayobami Adebayo
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We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.
Elizabeth Edwards
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If they are ignored, Alice Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. 'Until they begin interfering with the rights of middle-class people,' she says, 'you won't have anybody crying about it. But by then, it will be too late.'
Ben Ehrenreich
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'Tanu Weds Manu''s brilliance lies in the fact that it makes the middle class want to be aspirational.
R. Madhavan
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In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be a top priority for any thinking person.
Emily Matchar
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I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.
Andrew Haigh
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There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.
Ethan Canin
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The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.
Bill Clinton
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The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.
Alissa Quart
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Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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I'm a proud product of the American middle class.
Hillary Clinton
