Lynn Nottage Quotes

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

This growing inequality … is not only morally wrong, it’s bad economics, because when middle class families have less to spend, guess what. Businesses have fewer consumers.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

Liberal politicians, in celebrating the benefits of modernization, free trade, diverse families, and the rise of more women and minorities into political and economic prominence, have often glossed over the pain of white blue-collar communities.

People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it nonexistent.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

Misguided economic and tax policies have hampered growth, allowing the rich to become richer while turning the middle class into the working poor.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense of permanence.

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.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.

Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.