Children in working-class communities - like the one I grew up in - face higher rates of asthma and respiratory issues, which… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America. — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America. — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines.… — Daniel De Leon Copy Share Image
I've come from a working class background in South Wales with eight of us in a three bedroom house. Four boys in… — Tony Pulis Copy Share Image
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college.… — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
When you're working class and you feel like you're a bit of a toerag, you think Shakespeare's not for you, you know? — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I… — Faye Marsay Copy Share Image
“Believe me, I know what I’m talking about. I’m working class. Revolution or not, the working class will just keep on scraping… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Communism claimed to represent the working class, but banned trade unions, collective bargaining, and the right to strike. Walesa chose to attach… — Alexandre Havard Copy Share Image
My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Celebrate my death for the good times I've had, For the work that I've done and the friends that I've made. Celebrate… — Malvina Reynolds Copy Share Image
My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Cooking is work that is traditionally done by working-class people. The work itself is not glamorous. It's repetitive, and it's a lot… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
“One of the fruits of the long predominance of labourism is precisely that the party of the working class has never carried… — Ralph Miliband Copy Share Image
“The ship was sinking---and sinking fast. The captain told the passengers and crew, "We've got to get the lifeboats in the water… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
“The Bolshevik Revolution, which had happened only a quarter century earlier, had in contrast involved the embrace of concentrated authority as a… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Activism spawned by Sanders campaign is beginning to make inroads into electoral politics. Under Barack Obama, the Democratic Party pretty much collapsed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“But capitalism has not stood still since Marx's day. Writing in the middle years of the nineteenth century, Marx could not be… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace.” — Anthony M. Platt Copy Share Image
I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things. — Nick Love Copy Share Image
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing… — Herbert Gutman Copy Share Image
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give… — Cara Buono Copy Share Image
Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and… — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school. — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
Rock n' roll was my art school. For many people from working-class backgrounds, rock wasn't a chosen thing, it was the only… — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us. — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be… — Leon Jouhaux Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is...… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
