Quotes about Working Class

A working class hero is something to be. Votes: 4

The working class is revolutionary or it is nothing. Votes: 4

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. Votes: 4

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity." Votes: 4

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. Votes: 4

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles. Votes: 4

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. Votes: 4

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. Votes: 4

Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks. Votes: 4

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you. Votes: 4

That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there. Votes: 4

There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. Votes: 4

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. Votes: 4

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on. Votes: 4

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. Votes: 4

For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny. Votes: 4

I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America. Votes: 4

Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said, "She was a working class woman, and a red." Votes: 4

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes. Votes: 4

My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used to sit me down and say, 'You know, 99 percent of actors are out of work. You've been educated, so why do you want to spend your life pretending to be someone else when you could be your own man?' Votes: 4

I make films about working class people. Votes: 2

I come from a very working-class background. Votes: 2

I come from a very working-class background. Votes: 2

My family was mostly unemployed working class. Votes: 2

I'm a working-class person, working with class. Votes: 2

Sport must be accessible to working class youth. Votes: 2

My sympathies have always been for working-class people. Votes: 2

My dad's family were pretty working class, actually. Votes: 2

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people. Votes: 2

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. Votes: 2

I came from a real working-class show business family. Votes: 2

I love working out. Dance classes are my favorite. Votes: 2

I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast. Votes: 2

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. Votes: 2

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class. Votes: 2

I love just working. I love the idea of being a working class citizen. Votes: 2

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. Votes: 2

One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class. Votes: 2

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled. Votes: 2

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position. Votes: 2

I'm a working class lad. Votes: 0

Freedom for the working class! Votes: 0

I owe my allegiance to the working class. Votes: 0

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes. Votes: 0

My parents both came from very poor working-class families. Votes: 0

I have that working-class show-business blood coursing through my veins. Votes: 0

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York. Votes: 0

The working class must control the factories and the country Votes: 0

I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life. Votes: 0

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. Votes: 0

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community Votes: 0

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized. Votes: 0

Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. Votes: 0

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. Votes: 0

Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting. Votes: 0

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog. Votes: 0

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half. Votes: 0

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy. Votes: 0

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy." Votes: 0

We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities. Votes: 0

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working. Votes: 0

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized. Votes: 0

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. Votes: 0

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place. Votes: 0

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors. Votes: 0

I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. Votes: 0

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich. Votes: 0

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family. Votes: 0

You have to understand that a lot of the working class is not white. Votes: 0

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of. Votes: 0

Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race. Votes: 0

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. Votes: 0

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me. Votes: 0

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat. Votes: 0

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted. Votes: 0

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school. Votes: 0

We did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people. Votes: 0

Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease. Votes: 0

I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties. Votes: 0

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure. Votes: 0

Donald Trump is accomplishing getting, particularly white, working-class voters, who are turned off by their own party. Votes: 0

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. Votes: 0

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. Votes: 0

I would make the point that I have written repeatedly about the working class in Yamhill, Oregon. Votes: 0

The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily. Votes: 0

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before. Votes: 0

I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things. Votes: 0

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself. Votes: 0

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America. Votes: 0

Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland. Votes: 0

I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me. Votes: 0

I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. Votes: 0

I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits." Votes: 0

Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. Votes: 0

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background. Votes: 0

I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass. Votes: 0

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world Votes: 0

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors. Votes: 0

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live. Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. Votes: 0

Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for. Votes: 0

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. Votes: 0

In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses. Votes: 0

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music. Votes: 0

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music. Votes: 0

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. Votes: 0

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book! Votes: 0

I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class. Votes: 0

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism. Votes: 0

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank. Votes: 0

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists. Votes: 0

Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy. Votes: 0

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class. Votes: 0

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination Votes: 0

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women. Votes: 0

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect Votes: 0

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game. Votes: 0

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect. Votes: 0

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination. Votes: 0

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. Votes: 0

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise. Votes: 0

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! Votes: 0

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. Votes: 0

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar. Votes: 0

The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. Votes: 0

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys. Votes: 0

The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace. Votes: 0

White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America. Votes: 0

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege. Votes: 0

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now. Votes: 0

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true. Votes: 0

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. Votes: 0

It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots. Votes: 0

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries. Votes: 0

People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That's what brought the game alive. Votes: 0

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us. Votes: 0

We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have. Votes: 0

I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English. Votes: 0

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle. Votes: 0

The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative. Votes: 0

When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well. Votes: 0

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me. Votes: 0

There's unrecognizable change happening in Britain. The life prospects and job prospects, particularly of working-class people, have been severely dented. Without anyone being asked. Votes: 0

Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other. Votes: 0

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class. Votes: 0

The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that. Votes: 0

I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess. Votes: 0

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body. Votes: 0

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said It is the trade entering his body. Votes: 0

Since my worldview has expanded, I don't consider myself working class anymore, and I'm attracted to playing characters who go through a similar evolution. Votes: 0

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. Votes: 0

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief. Votes: 0

I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family. Votes: 0

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class. Votes: 0

Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class. Votes: 0

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books. Votes: 0

I'd grown up in a working class neighborhood in Baltimore, a place hard hit by the offshoring of numerous heavy industries - steel, textile, shipbuilding. Votes: 0

Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class. Votes: 0

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern. Votes: 0

Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs. Votes: 0

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern. Votes: 0

The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs. Votes: 0

Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class. Votes: 0

People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors. Votes: 0

When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class. Votes: 0

The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties. Votes: 0

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry. Votes: 0

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now. Votes: 0

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class. Votes: 0

Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans - like the earned income tax credit - aren't thought of as loopholes; they're just thought of as benefits. Votes: 0

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class. Votes: 0

There's a ton of stuff we can do to help the economy and help the American people, and the aspirational working class of the American people. Votes: 0

I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain. Votes: 0

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them? Votes: 0

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. Votes: 0

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford. Votes: 0

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families. Votes: 0

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones. Votes: 0

It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights. Votes: 0

Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability. Votes: 0

A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive. Votes: 0

This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you. Votes: 0

A socialist must be 'class-conscious', recognizing his identity as a member of the working class and understanding his interests as permanently against those of the master class. Votes: 0

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture. Votes: 0

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces. Votes: 0

Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class. Votes: 0

In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives. Votes: 0

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect. Votes: 0

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy. Votes: 0

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress. Votes: 0

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser. Votes: 0

I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic. Votes: 0

Working with Cate Blanchett, on and off the screen, has always been a highlight for me. She embodies the perfect combination of consummate actor and world-class fashion icon. Votes: 0

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home. Votes: 0

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey. Votes: 0

Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact. Votes: 0

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools. Votes: 0

To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be "reached out to" in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity. Votes: 0

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really class ridden, literature. Votes: 0

I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement. Votes: 0

Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do. Votes: 0

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both. Votes: 0

If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class. Votes: 0

When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong. Votes: 0

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children. Votes: 0

Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent. Votes: 0

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to. Votes: 0

The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class. Votes: 0

I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution. Votes: 0

I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in investment banking, I was one of two women in my analyst class. Votes: 0

Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15. Votes: 0

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and no heavy lifting. What could be nicer? Votes: 0

Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer. Votes: 0

Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same. Votes: 0

My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded. Votes: 0

From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Votes: 0

Liberals lost touch with working-class Americans because they never had to have a conversation about values with those voters; they could just rely on the courts to impose their views. Votes: 0

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government. Votes: 0

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game. Votes: 0

Donald Trump is targeting the traditional Republican voters, the average person with an average income, the working class, a certain group of entrepreneurs and those people who embrace traditional values. Votes: 0

You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that. Votes: 0

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class. Votes: 0

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing. Votes: 0

We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period. Votes: 0

Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment. Votes: 0

You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image. Votes: 0

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance. Votes: 0

It's ginned up by the corporate plutocracy as a way of distracting the working-class people that it's screwing. We hamstring our own natural progressivism in this country, and that's really stupid. Votes: 0

Research highlights a striking link between between encouraging child-raising and class. Half of working-class parents' interactions with their 12-18 month-olds were affirming, versus 80% among the affluent and 20% among those in poverty. Votes: 0

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights. Votes: 0

"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined. Votes: 0

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth. Votes: 0

The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them. Votes: 0

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension. Votes: 0

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught. Votes: 0

The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded. Votes: 0

On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class. Votes: 0

It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance. Votes: 0

In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. Votes: 0

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted. Votes: 0

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton did better among working-class whites when she`s running against Barack Hussein Obama. How is she doing now against an older, a professor type, who seems very unthreatening, very likable. Votes: 0

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin. Votes: 0

We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work. Votes: 0

When we started off, we wanted the girls, the cocaine, the fur coats. It wasn't like it was an act; it was almost like working-class people winning the pools. We went bananas. Votes: 0

It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent household items without incurring the burden of debt. Votes: 0

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party. Votes: 0

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation. Votes: 0

I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget what it was like to be poor. Votes: 0

I project that this next election - the 2016 election - if it is about anything thematically, it is going to be about that sense of rage and displacement among white working-class voters. Votes: 0

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class. Votes: 0

If you can stitch together that kind of coalition with young people, bringing together conservatives and evangelicals - and I will tell you, in Iowa, we also won Reagan Democrats, working-class voters. Votes: 0

I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class. Votes: 0

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling. Votes: 0

I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead. Votes: 0

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams. Votes: 0

All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate peoples into a state of poverty, especially farmers, working-class people, and the very poor. Votes: 0

Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class. Votes: 0

It's very well known that the Republicans have problems with minorities. The Democrats have big problems with white people. Obama only got 39% of the vote. He only got 36% of the working-class white people. Votes: 0

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger. Votes: 0

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children. Votes: 0

Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups. Votes: 0

The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from. Votes: 0

As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to do movies.' Then it was finding the means to do it. Votes: 0

It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself. Votes: 0

I grew up in a very working-class family and also a very fundamentalist Christian family. So, we didn't have access to the arts in the house in any form other than the Sunday funnies. Votes: 0

Oxford is a funny place, as it is a mixture of town and gown. You have the students at the main university and at Oxford Brookes, but there is also a big working-class community. Votes: 0

If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you. Votes: 0

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. Votes: 0

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. Votes: 0

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh. Votes: 0

The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change. Votes: 0

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background. Votes: 0

I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine. Votes: 0

We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class and middle class people. That's the end of that, it is not negotiable. Votes: 0

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege. Votes: 0

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class. Votes: 0

In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race. Votes: 0

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it. Votes: 0

Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still enshrined in the hearts of the working class and peoples of all countries. Votes: 0

I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way. Votes: 0