Quotes by Class The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great! Elizabeth Warren hard-workclassamerica 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 satisfaction-in-lifeclassopportunity I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to be able to cultivate so delicate a class of motives for the privilege of doing one's best to express one's thoughts to people who care for them. Personally, I have yet to breathe the ether of such a transcendent sphere. I am proud to say that I have always been a working woman, and always had to be. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward writingclasspeople And I've been taking acting classes since I was 7. Elizabeth Olsen acting-classesactingclass I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background. Ella Baker kingsclassthinking Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class. Elizabeth Warren anger-and-fearclassway The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers. Ella Reeve Bloor motherclasschildren She is amazingly creative, bringing so much more to a song than just a singer. She is a first-class musician and the most gracious person in the world. Ella Fitzgerald creativeclasssong I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons. Elle Varner gymnasticsmomclass Unless you had developed a certain independence of value, a certain independent system of value, a system of values that was independent from this middle-class drive for recognition. This has been my explanation of part of [Martin Luther King] general role. So, he accepted this without too much resistance. In fact, none that I could ever see, and at certain points I was close enough to see something. Ella Baker independentkingsclass Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks. Elizabeth Warren carefightingclass Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent. Elizabeth Warren classamericathinking I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody. Elizabeth Warren warfareclasscountry I was always drawn to teachers who made class interesting. In high school, I enjoyed my American and English literature classes because my teachers, Jeanne Dorsey and Dani Barton, created an environment where interaction was important. Ellen Ochoa classteacherschool Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly. Ellen Tauscher classamericayears I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class. Ellen Swallow Richards recyclingweekclass The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue. Ellen Willis organizationrealclass The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent. Elmer Eric Schattschneider strongclassheaven The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself. Ellen DeGeneres careersclassattention Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them. Elspeth Huxley dogclasstwo«5556575859606162636465»
