The areas in which I teach are working-class history and African-American Studies and at its best the critical study of whiteness often… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
The cities drain the country of the best part of its population: the flower of the youth, of both sexes, goes into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious… — Yulia Tymoshenko Copy Share Image
Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in… — Chris Crutcher Copy Share Image
I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I enrolled at a local college, but this time paid attention to myself - took only courses that really interested me, even… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of our film lecturers, one of the guys teaching the course, said to the departing film class, 'No one in this… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
I basically believe that until China stop stealing our intellectual property, and until they stop keeping our companies out that do good… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
Public education is a great instrument of social change. Through it, if we so desire, we can make our country more nearly… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Copy Share Image
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
“i was really into communal living and we were all / such free spirits, crossing the country we were / nomads and… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Historically, it took a long time before the court took any women law clerks. Finally, it did, but the numbers have never… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have known female whores who spoke very bitterly of their calling. "If they don't like my face, they can put a… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I have to admit, I go through phases of being good and bad. When I'm being good, I go to the gym… — Joanne Froggatt Copy Share Image
I like underground rappers - Cory Gunz is a young kid that's been really doing his thing. I'm a Gym Class Heroes… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way. But the slanting process is so subtle that… — Lena Horne Copy Share Image
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and… — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
There won't ever be a mass-market record industry again, and that's fine with me because that industry didn't operate for the benefit… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I always have traveled with a camera throughout my life, but I always had my old 35mm film camera. When I was… — Guy Laliberte Copy Share Image
She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill… — Paul Torday Copy Share Image
I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class… — Jamie Johnson Copy Share Image