Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or peasantry:
“Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across the hundreds of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)