“He calls himself working class, which I think is a bit ironic since he doesn’t work.” — Ida Løkås Copy Share Image
Where I come from, everyone talks like me. It's working-class Edinburgh. — Iain Stirling Copy Share Image
My parents were Quaker, and they were part of that old self-improving working class. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
There's a strong working-class work ethic in my family, which makes us strong. — Suranne Jones Copy Share Image
the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before. — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
Take care of your working-class citizens, and your working-class citizens will take care of you. — Richard Ojeda Copy Share Image
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published.… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I dunno whether it was to do with my parents - we were working-class - but it was important to me to… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
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. — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
I challenge the idea that films about rich people are escapism and films about working class people are dour and sad. I… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very working-class area with a high crime rate and when I first started to break away from… — Bez Copy Share Image
My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
“You don’t understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want… — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's shameful that the elites basically have one-and-a-half political parties. Working class men and women have zero parties - or they have… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system. It relies too much on transportation, chemical fertilization,… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
“the underdeveloped peoples will decide to continue their evolution inside a collective autarky. Thus the Western industries will quickly be deprived of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy,… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I think we need leadership that can gently and with affection remind us of what we Americans mostly agree upon: civility, kindness,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Being born into a prosperous middle-class family typically endows you with a safety net for life. If you are not naturally very… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
“The final proof that this alien indoctrination which begins in nursery school is based on the splitting of the family is that… — Mariarosa Dalla Costa Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“This city-and-corporate-led “pro-arts” agenda runs the risk of not only driving out present art-making residents out via a combination of gate-keeping and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our… — Valerie Miner Copy Share Image
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations. — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been… — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
Some of my friends laugh at me and tell me I'm far too working-class about my childcare, but I refuse to have… — Tess Daly Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how many politicians have a working class background but they get it beaten out of them. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
I would have put more emphasis on bringing working class people together to fight for a government that works for all of… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a… — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
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