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.
The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.