I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn’t the norm. – Jesse Eisenberg
Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers. – James P. Hoffa
When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others. – Jackie Speier
We’ve always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco. – James Sinegal
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves. – James Payn
I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class. – Joel Kinnaman
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here’s what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it. – Joe Biden
You don’t have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that. – James Sinegal
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament. – Jules Verne
I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to. – Imtiaz Ali
There isn’t much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country? – Iris Chang
I’m the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I’m a victim again. A result. – James Hillman
The ‘niche’ effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation. – Jonathan Kozol
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. – Benjamin Disraeli
Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative’s place or a religious shrine. – Imtiaz Ali
When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you’ve got to be working, or you won’t be able to pay the bills. – Anna Kendrick