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This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside. -- Zygmunt Bauman
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class. -- H. Rap Brown
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. -- Margaret Cho
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. -- Arthur Laffer
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements. -- William Bligh
While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. -- Eugene V. Debs
In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires. -- Matt Taibbi
At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did. -- Henry Flynt
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. -- Oswald Spengler
Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class. -- James Cook
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. -- Matthew Arnold
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. -- Victor Hugo
Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes. -- John Podesta
Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes... -- John Podesta
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. -- Howard Zinn
The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. -- George Orwell
Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class. -- Matthew Arnold
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. -- James Madison
Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant. -- John Adams
The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their firing squads in one week. Do these figures represent the comparative efficiency of guillotine and modern rifle or the comparative cruelty of upper and lower class mobs? -- Guy Endore
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety. -- Hannah More
The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class. -- Sloan Wilson
The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part. -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground. -- Marvin L. Cohen
I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family. -- Maureen Forrester
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending. -- Tim Ferriss
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. -- Billy Corgan
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class. -- Paul Fussell
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. -- Michael Parenti
Zombies are the real lower-class citizens of the monster world and that's why l like them. -- George A. Romero
Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be? -- Francesca Annis
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. -- Judith Martin
The lower the class of the affair, the more likely the band will be invited to eat. -- Don Asher
I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy. -- Eric Idle
Statisticians estimate that crime among good golfers is lower than in any class of the community except possibly bishops. -- P. G. Wodehouse
In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses. -- Van Jones
Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form. -- Thorstein Veblen
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class. -- Paul Fussell
A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class. -- David Frost
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. -- Ernest Mandel
I love how 'melodrama' is a denigrated term - a lower-class citizen to other genres. And yet that's what life is, man. -- Todd Haynes
Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives. -- George Gilder
War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been. -- George Carlin
Exemplary people concern themselves with virtue, small people concern themselves with territory. The ruling class thinks of punishment, the lower classes hope for benevolence. -- Confucius
I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world. -- Diane Kruger
Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind. -- Robertson Davies
I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living. -- Patti Smith
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals. -- Nick Clooney
The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold. -- Michael Lewis
Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl. -- Terry Pratchett
While there is a lower class, I am in it. While there is a criminal element, I am of it.While there is a soul in prison, I am not free. -- Eugene V. Debs
He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer's body and a dancer's capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing and tragic aspects of American lower-class life -- Lincoln Kirstein
While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free. -- Eugene V. Debs
How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths? -- M.B. Dallocchio

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