“political parties representing rival bourgeois factions create the illusion of choice but unite to repress the working class.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege. — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution. — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
I come from the blue-collared working class folk: live better, work union, all that good stuff, and I just see that eroding… — Everlast Copy Share Image
The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, 'I'm… — Rob James-Collier Copy Share Image
At the time, Jean-Claude [Juncker] was already an important man in Brussels. I was a young representative in the European Parliament. We… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
It's - the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighborhoods because of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get tough. In a world… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a… — John Hume Copy Share Image
“T he weakness of political parties does n ot only lie in t he mechanical application of an organization which was created… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The second answer is that we just need more patience – paradise, the capitalists promise, is right around the corner. True, mistakes… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The issues that I think matter, that I think resonate with the voters are, No. 1, defending our freedoms, defending the Constitution… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as… — Alasdair MacLean Copy Share Image
we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“Work—especially the sort of work that gets your hands dirty and that brands you as a member of the working class—no longer… — Gerald Howard Copy Share Image
I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
“Okay, granted, there's a lot of willful blindness out there, more than enough to go around, and failures of imagination abound as… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The authoritarian child-rearing style so often found in working-class families stems in part from the fact that parents see aroundthem so many… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect — Roy Jenkins Copy Share Image
“When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead. — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist. — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
“Even more surprising, 42 percent of working-class whites - by far the highest number in the survey - report that their lives… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
There's unrecognizable change happening in Britain. The life prospects and job prospects, particularly of working-class people, have been severely dented. Without anyone… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
“The working class positively benefited from Hitler's rule, under which the standard of living was raised till it became the highest in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't tell a story about a working-class family on a premium channel that you have to pay to get. — Cristela Alonzo Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working-class community. I was the first in my family to attend college, thanks in large part to… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
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… — Ian Astbury Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image