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 Copy Share Image
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
I've made a professional reputation playing working-class, middle-class, American women. There's a real sense of stoicism and pragmatism and strength and lyricism… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
Take care of your working-class citizens, and your working-class citizens will take care of you. — Richard Ojeda Copy Share Image
the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before. — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I dunno whether it was to do with my parents - we were working-class - but it was important to me to… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published.… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been… — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
The GFTUK is a powerful political instrument for training its members, including the working class, into Kimilsungists-Kimjongilists with unfailing loyalty to the… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Power will be the arbiter, as it always has been the arbiter. It is a struggle of classes. Just as your class… — Jack London Copy Share Image
For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism,… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I think English punk died in '79 or '80. Maybe '82 at the latest. As far as American punk goes, it wasn't… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“... that with the defeat of the revolutionary workers, Europe finally fell back into its old double slavery, into Anglo-Russian slavery. The… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Whereas in 1800 at least 90 per cent of Egyptians were poor peasants, by 1900 more than 25 per cent of the… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
I mean, the people who got us into these crises - whether we're talking about the bankers or the hedge fund managers,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralisation of the state power will be useful for the centralisation of… — Karl Marx 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
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
Talking about success in society, no one can complain, because today everyone can choose what he or she wants. They don't just… — Odd Nerdrum Copy Share Image
The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations. — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
But I'm grateful for everything I've got and I think that's part of my working-class background. — Emma Hayes Copy Share Image
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Ultimately, imperialism made even the British working classes suffer. This is a point which the British working classes found quite difficult to… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
We were very working class and there is that chip on your shoulder from day one, but then I went to art… — Lee Evans Copy Share Image
I was raised on a reservation, went to public school. It's a very normal, sort of working-class upbringing in one way, and… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
People have to recognise I'm a working-class lad. Forget what I've done and where I've been. I'm a working-class lad. I've come… — Sol Campbell Copy Share Image
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
A painful attitude to domestic help is, I think, a fundamental aspect of being working class made good. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
Working class communities, like the one I grew up in, have long felt the disproportionate and cumulative impacts of pollution. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
I'm Latino, progressive, and I have deep roots in the working class - my father was a bracero, a guest farmworker and… — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
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