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
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background. — Chris Hayes 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
The Vietnam War was so obviously evil and bore down most heavily upon working class youth that it made me think about… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
I always considered myself working class, because I was brought up on a council estate. I still do, really. I mean, I… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand… — Kenneth Williams Copy Share Image
The base of the party, the middle-aged white working class, has suffered at least as much as any demographic group because of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles.… — Ben Chaplin Copy Share Image
I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I was watching the movies my parents wanted to watch. I came from a working class family,… — Olivier Martinez 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
“Some working-class whites, of course, could not afford to move. Many of these people lived in closely knit, ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods where… — James T. Patterson 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
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 can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies… — Christopher Hitchens 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
The great leaders called the working class first whenever difficult and gigantic tasks arose for the revolution, and ushered in fresh heydays… — Kim Jong-un 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
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
My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
In America, the middle class, the working class, have accepted for too long now, that they should accept less. — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place. — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class. — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
The Labour party was supposed to defend the people and be for the working class, but now they only have ever-so-slightly different… — Bez Copy Share Image
Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music. — Yelawolf Copy Share Image
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… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most… — Jim Ratcliffe Copy Share Image
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If change is to come, it must come from the working class. That's why telling their story is important. That's why knowing… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
