The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. – Constance Baker Motley
When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave. – Bikram Choudhury
The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs. – Bernie Sanders
Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren’t as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well. – Iris Chang
My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast. – James Gray
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. – John Podhoretz
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit. – Joel Kinnaman
Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class. – Beyonce Knowles
For many centuries Chinese society has been free of class distinctions such as are found even in advanced democracies. – Chiang Kai-shek
Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around. – Britt Ekland
I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I’ve always been a populist, though not a patronising populist. – Brian Cox
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that’s very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about. – Blake Bailey
I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged. – Concha Buika
There is a class, moreover, by whom all these scientific theories, and more are held as ascertained facts, and as the basis of philosophical inferences which strike at the root of theistic beliefs. – Asa Gray
My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It’s a proper dance with proper music. It has class. – Anton du Beke
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. – Constance Baker Motley
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent. – Ben Kingsley
Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves. – Albert Bushnell Hart
Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South. – A. Philip Randolph