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“There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon.”

Source: J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings

“If we wanted a program to help the majority of the population, we'd offer loan guarantees to help poor people get access to reliable cars so that they could have a better shot at getting - and keeping - a well-paying job...A small amount of capital could make a much bigger difference in their lives than extra student loan relief for middle-class college kids would.”

“Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.”

Ifs White Class Practice Groups Middle Policy Movement Statements Organized Middle Class Diverse Working Class

Author:Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“I don't know what the country's coming to. Everyone trying to be better than their betters--mink coats and no manners. No wonder Germany's arming.”

Knows World Trying War Country Wonder Class England Manners War Of The Worlds Germany World War Ii World War I Coats Mink Mink Coats

Author:Arthur Wimperis

“A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.”

Kind Courses Education Class Middle Training Direct Definitions Servant Middle Class Devoted

Author:Raymond Williams

“You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.”

Class Conflict Illusion Teeth Remedy Grandeur Semantics Class Conflict Illusions Of Grandeur

Book:Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944

Source: Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944

“Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting.”

Real Stories Secret Class Wise Middle Surface Cruelty Middle Class Compassionate Terrific Haunting Real Things American Life Breathtaking

Author:Dan Chaon

“Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.”

Stills Humor Today Funny Used Class Doors Special Handle Used To Be Occasions Working Class Ruling Reserved Special Occasion Limousines

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Derek Taylor was where all the razz-ma-tazz and class sprang from; the Beatles were just charming, rich young men.”

Men Young Class Rich Young Man Charming

Author:Eve Babitz

“The laws should be rigidly enforced which prohibit the immigration of a servile class to compete with American labor, with no intention of acquiring citizenship, and bringing with them and retaining habits and customs repugnant to our civilization.”

Should Law Class Habit Civilization Labor Intention Immigration Customs Citizenship Retaining

Book:Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

Source: Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids

“I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.”

Thinking Class Listening Right Now Sitting Making Money Professors Entrepreneurial

Author:Shay Carl

“Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.”

“Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.”

People Has Beens Ideas Poor Class Study Rich Groups Middle Limits Resources Generous Middle Class Mentor Millionaire Rich People Duplicate

Author:Grant Cardone

“What used to be racial segregation now mirrors itself in class segregation, this great sorting (has) taken place. It creates its own politics. There are some communities where not only do I not know poor people, I don't even know people who have trouble paying the bills at the end of the month. I just don't know those people. And so there's less sense of investment in those children.”

People Knows Children Ends Used Politics Community Poor Class Taken Trouble Months Mirrors Bills Investment Used To Be Poor People Segregation Sorting Racial Segregation

Author:Barack Obama

“The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.”

Looks Important Care President Class Clear Environment Economic Streets Middle Policy Health Wall Areas Congress Protection Recovery Reform Health Care Middle Class Economic Recovery

Author:Barack Obama

“We deny your internationalism, because it is a luxury which only the upper classes can afford.”

Class Deny Luxury Upper Class Internationalism

Author:Benito Mussolini

“The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.”

Ifs Lasts America Courses Change Class Generations Middle Middle Class Tipping Tipping Point

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both.”

Men Certain Belief Religious Opinion Class Advice Divine Opposites Mistaken Divine Will

Book:Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

Source: Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 by Abraham Lincoln

“But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony, and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever their continent, their class, their color.”

Knows Mean Light Form Given Nations Dark Poor Powerful Class Rich Color Weak Skins Continents Colonialism Exploitation Consent Colony Subjugation Dark Skin

Author:John F. Kennedy

“The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!”

Force Class Mankind Greatness Skulls Homage Feats Affirmative

Book:Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Source: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

“No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.”

Humans Action Games Human Beings Class Innocent Innocence Playing Games Human Actions

Author:W. H. Auden

“Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.”

States Reality Differences United Silence Class United States Educational Intense Setting Settings Class Differences

Book:Teaching To Transgress

Source: Teaching To Transgress

“Many of the lower middle class are members of labor unions, churches, bowling clubs, fraternal, service, and nationality organizations. They are organizations and people that must be worked with as one would work with any other part of our populations - with respect, understanding, and sympathy.”

People Understanding Church Class Middle Members Labor Organization Unions Population Clubs Middle Class Nationality Bowling Labor Union Fraternal

Book:Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.”

Want Needs Years May Problem Jobs Form Education Class Four Middle Century Fashion Broken Higher Skills Degrees Middle Class Four Years 21st Century Education System Higher Education

Author:Marco Rubio

“Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.”

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“Starting from the primary schools, there must be compulsory 'Cosmos' classes throughout the education period. If a man thinks about and understands the universe, he will have wider horizons; he will be much less conceited and much more realistic.”

Ifs Thinking Men School Universe Education Class Periods Starting Primaries Cosmos Horizon Realistic Conceited Compulsory Primary School

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.”

World Persons Prayer Class Perspective Equal Members Unique Unique Perspective

Author:W. H. Auden

“A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it. My dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well.”

World Wells Dream Class Drink Taste Findings Wine Tails World Class

Author:Kurt Russell

“The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born and I am honored to be apart of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Kennedy have done so much in that regard for the two generations they've won over during their career course.”

Two Done Courses Born Party Class Careers Generations Proud Citizens Regard Democratic Working Class Honored Democratic Party Mold

Author:Joan Crawford

“The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.”

Stills Happens Age Time Money Race Class Aging Democratic Distinction Birthday Abandoned Hymns Democratic Society Class Distinction

Author:W. H. Auden

“Art class was my thing, but not any other class.”

Art Class Art Class

Author:Dan Colen

“I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.”

Writing White Party Class Couple Scripts Snow Spares Bugs Screenwriting Snow White Spare Time Kegs

Author:Evan Daugherty

“Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?”

Way Fighting Black Class Conditions Color Brother Safe Starting Available Planning Range Pregnancy Genocide Extending Contraception Family Planning Termination

Book:Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

“If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class.”

Ifs Men Spiritual Moral Class Objects Assumption Superiority

Author:Betty Friedan

“In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would be a great service to tell girls who plan to work in society to expect this subtle, uncomfortable discrimination-tell them not to be quiet, and hope it will go away, but fight it. A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex, but neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.”

“Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.”

Would Be Values Culture Lost Class Salvation Ill Bourgeois

Author:Norman Podhoretz

“All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.”

Years Running Kids Able Class Morning Cutting Bases Bottom Average Track Quitting Cards Grades Professors Dropping Stairs

Author:Bobby Knight

“Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.”

Certain Class Struggle Members Liberation Oppressed Oppressors Pedagogy Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.”

Ifs Looks Suffering Community Poor Class Middle Color Environmental Middle Class Neighborhood Pollution Facility Upper Middle Class

Author:Carol Browner

“A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.”

Culture Lines Class Creative Depends Divided

Author:Tom Paulin

“Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.”

Feels Happens Next Class Middle Havens Extremes Versions Middle Class Retirement Republic Transition Can't Change Bananas Panama Tacky Makeovers

Author:Andrew Evans

“When I was 19 years old, I wrote my first book. I took a computer science class, and the book was garbage. I thought I could write a better one, so I did.”

Writing Years Firsts Book Class Computer Garbage Computer Science Science Class

Author:Jim McKelvey

“Lots of the cooking classes open to non-professionals are too low level for experienced foodies, or don’t offer enough hands-on training.”

Enough Hands Levels Class Offers Lows Training Cooking Low Level Cooking Classes

Author:Homaro Cantu

“I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents.”

Knows Needs Feels Stories Actors Class Talent Fine Negative Relation Rings Tunes Crave Public Relations Brass

Author:Michael Welch

“I really am enjoying my economics class, but I think my favorite course has to be history.”

Thinking Courses Enjoy Class Economics My Favorite

Author:Molly Quinn

“No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.”

Stills Matter Social Class Industry Proud Standards Rose Sophisticated Irrelevant Social Class Posh

Author:Kate Reardon

“This country is facing an economy that has been radically transformed.And these changes have been disruptive. They have changed people's lives. The jobs that once sustained our middle class, they either don't pay enough or they are gone, and we need someone that understands that as our nominee.”

People Needs Has Beens Country Enough Jobs Pay Class Economy Gone Middle Changed Middle Class Transformed Disruptive

Author:Marco Rubio

“Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.”

People Knows Jobs Stuff Class Worry Five Middle Security Nine Like Me Middle Class

Author:Irvine Welsh

“The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in productivity have dropped, the gains in income for the middle class and the least advantaged have slowed, at best.”

Country Class Middle Happenings Gains Productivity Income Usa Middle Class Trajectory Disadvantaged

Author:Charles Koch

“The problem is we have a Wall Street-to-Washington access of power that has controlled the political climate. The donor class feeds the political class who does the dance that the donor class wants. And the result is federal government keeps getting bigger.”

Want Doe Problem Government Political Results Class Streets Wall Bigger Climate Access Controlled Federal Government Donors

Author:Mike Huckabee

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