Like any working-class boy growing up in north London, I wanted to be a footballer. — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity." — Harry Bridges Copy Share Image
I come from a working class background, it wasn't easy for me at all, but I worked hard. — Sol Campbell Copy Share Image
We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities. — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank. — Jasper Carrott Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children. — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
My act is strongly centred around Hull and being working class, so I felt guilty living in London - like I was… — Lucy Beaumont Copy Share Image
The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
“The historical moment when Bolshevism triumphed for itself in Russia and social democracy fought victoriously for the old world marks the inauguration… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“The first thing is to raise hell,” says I. “That’s always the first thing to do when you’re faced with an injustice… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I'm from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I grew up poor with a very distinctive working-class accent. In England in the 1980s and 1990s this would have impeded my… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
“The focus on one sector of Trump voters—the white working class—is puzzling, given the breadth of his white coalition. Indeed, there is… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The quarter century following World War II was a ‘golden age’ for most workers and their families…, even for men with a… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
“In fact if a reasoned analysis of colonized society had been made, it would have shown them that the native peasantry lives… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you come from a working-class background, you can't afford to write full time, because you're just not being paid. Basically, all… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“To say that one goes on holiday is to speak the language of the working class, for whom the time off appears… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The so-called 'far right' defends the working class far more than the left does. — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
