A Quote by Marvin L. Cohen

I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

Marvin L. Cohen

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Background Class Foreground Gradually Lower Risen

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Marvin L. Cohen
American - Physicist
Born: March 3, 1935

When I was just 13, we went from being middle class to lower middle class and finally lower class, as someone close to my father took away everything he had, including his property. All of a sudden, I started working at the age of 13.

Nana Patekar

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

George Orwell

In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks.

Vaclav Smil

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

Billy Corgan

The anger from Occupy Wall Street is coming from this simple fact: America no longer seems to be a place where you can work your way up, from rags to riches, from lower class to middle class to upper class.

Meghan McCain

When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.

Howard Zinn

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Matthew Arnold

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

James Cook

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

H. Rap Brown

I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.

Christopher Hitchens

This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.

Anohni

A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

David Frost

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

Ernest Mandel

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Judith Martin

It`s not just Republicans. It`s Republicans and Democrats. It`s middle class, lower middle class, working class Americans who have felt the angst, who are frustrated, who are angry as a result of 1% growth which, in my view, has been really the issue that has propelled Donald Trump from day one.