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I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that. -- James Gray
The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities. -- Barry Commoner
People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism. -- Lynne Tillman
Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes. -- Pat Schneider
A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class. -- John Conyers
Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child. -- Richard Louv
If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does. -- James Gray
We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we strive to see all of these groups united, hand-in-hand, in opposition to the plundering and privileged minority that constitutes the rulers of the State. -- Murray Rothbard
I don't think we should stop emphasizing race because I think, you know, race is still very, very important, and we have to recognize that and continue to introduce programs to address racial inequities. But we have to widen our vision and also address the growing problems of economic class. -- William Julius Wilson
[T]he economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression. -- Louis Althusser
Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally. -- Shulamith Firestone
When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief. -- Roger Ebert
Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women. -- Elizabeth Warren
That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security. -- Sander Levin
A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class. -- Bruce Braley
Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged. -- Nina Easton
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly. -- William Julius Wilson
The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern. -- Noam Chomsky
Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical. -- Najib Razak
Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families. -- Ellen Tauscher
Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth. -- F. Sionil Jose
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class. -- Jackie Speier
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both. -- Daniel De Leon
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
This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic. -- Garet Garrett
We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. -- Cory Booker
The centerpiece of Obamanomics - raising taxes on high earners and investors and lowering them on the middle class - is attacked by free-marketers for penalizing economic success and possibly further stalling economic growth. -- Nina Easton
The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars. -- Mitch Daniels
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity. -- Jennifer Granholm
The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because the founding members felt like there wasn't enough focus on middle class issues in Washington, and we're going to keep it focused on middle class issues. -- Bruce Braley
The economic owning class is always the political ruling class. -- Eugene V. Debs
Don't liberal Democrats ever learn economic principles, or does their class warfare trump all else? -- Cal Thomas
Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion. -- Hannah Arendt
Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic. -- Dov Davidoff
Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case. -- George Packer
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It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class. -- Barack Obama
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. -- Noam Chomsky
Are we prepared to take on the enormous political power of the billionaire class or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy? -- Bernie Sanders
The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern. -- Noam Chomsky
The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance. -- Ellen Cushing
When President-elect [Donald] Trump wants to take on these issue, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class families, then count me in. -- Rudy Giuliani
Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library. -- Bob Hartley
Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability. -- Kellyanne Conway
Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer. -- Thomas Frank
We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader. -- Rick Larsen

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