Working class Quotes · Page 22

I would like to remind you that both assimilation and integration apply to the working classes in the nineteenth century, at least…

— Norbert Elias

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can…

— Margaret Sanger

I want people to realise we're not just stuffy aristocrats and Old Etonians. There are black Tories and lots of middle and…

— Kemi Badenoch

I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the…

— Geoff Dyer

“Every ever you are in the world, you have to work to earn a living.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It is only the working class at the head of the masses, it is only the working class headed by its real…

— Enver Hoxha

Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into…

— Bruce Sterling

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

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in…

— Denise Mina

We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is…

— Bernie Sanders

Our Party conferred the honourable title, 'The Heroic Working Class of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il,' on our working class…

— Kim Jong-un

I always wanted to be a filmmaker, but I started acting when I was 9 years old. I looked a certain part…

— Steve Antin

The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the…

— George Packer

I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you…

— John C. Reilly

If Theresa May is a white woman who is very well-educated and very wealthy, she's more likely to act in the interests…

— Dawn Foster

I'm Latino, progressive, and I have deep roots in the working class - my father was a bracero, a guest farmworker and…

— Jimmy Gomez

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world

— Vivienne Westwood

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

“the bourgeoisie wanted to insert something more than just the negative law of “this is not yours” between the worker and the…

— Michel Foucault

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

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

— Elia Kazan

He [Donald Trump] is got no ethics when it comes to business and can they turn this story line, talk to his…

— Joan Walsh Anglund

As a boy, I was never interested in theater because I came from a working-class Scottish home. I thought, 'I want to…

— Brian Cox

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

— Yelawolf

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