“Marriage equality is a very middle-class issue and voting rights is a very working-class issue. If you do not vote, who are you speaking for? Who will be the next Fannie Lou Hamer? If not you or someone you know, then who?” IfsKnowsNextClassIssuesRightsMiddleVoteVotingMiddle ClassWorking ClassRight To VoteMarriage Equality Author:Darryl Pinckney
“When I think about the folks who are out there at home tonight watching... They know that this country is not respected around the world anymore. They know that this country is pushing the middle class, the hardworking taxpayers, backwards, and they saw a president who doesn't understand their pain, and doesn't have any plan for getting away from it.” ThinkingKnowsWorldCountryHomePainPresidentClassSawsPlansMiddleFolksAround The WorldMiddle ClassTonightPushingGet AwayBackwardsTaxpayersHardworking Author:Chris Christie
“I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.” ThinkingPersonsMadeMovingSongWhiteClassMiddleGrewGrew UpCommitmentPrivilegeNostalgiaDespiteRelateMiddle ClassAcheKeep MovingUpper Middle Class Author:Erin McKeown
“Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities, traders, merchants, travelers, with a wide range of personalities.” PeopleStoriesNightCitiesClassMiddlePersonalityModelsWideTraditionalRangeMiddle ClassTravelerMerchantsTradersArabianAristocraticLiving In The CityArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“One of the things about me is that I actually had marginally middle-class living from writing. For years and years, I actually wrote so much through the '70s and '80s that I made a living. And very rarely have I had to take another job. And now it's impossible for anybody coming up to make such a living. They've pissed in the temple, you know?” KnowsWritingYearsMadeJobsClassImpossibleMiddleTemplesMiddle Class80s Author:Richard Meltzer
“I guess I'm also obligated to note that the experience of sex workers who are not upper/middle class/white probably have much worse conditions than anything that's portrayed commonly in media/what I experienced.” SexWhiteClassMiddleConditionsMediaNotesWorkersMiddle ClassUpper Middle Class Author:Marie Calloway
“Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor.” KnowsCountryPoorCitiesClassMiddleDrugDrinkingMiddle Class Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell