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 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
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
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
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
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
[French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's shameful that the elites basically have one-and-a-half political parties. Working class men and women have zero parties - or they have… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system. It relies too much on transportation, chemical fertilization,… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
In prosperous times the mercantile classes often realize fortunes, which go far towards securing them against the future; but unfortunately the working… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Dealing as we are with the very first experiment in proletarian dictatorship in world history (and one taking place at that under… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There you see two typical members of the class which has down-trodden the poor for centuries. Idlers! Non-producers! Look at the tall… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“i was really into communal living and we were all / such free spirits, crossing the country we were / nomads and… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
I still remember how upset I was in the aftermath of President Obama's election, where people in Republican leadership didn't say that,… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“Advance until payday loan are best financial services for the salaried borrowers. By the support of this excellent financial deal working class… — Dusany Los Copy Share Image
Whole ideology of consumption almost to the point of religion. Whether it's the consumption of entertainment or the consumption around buying things,… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
On the policy front, I just believe that Barack Obama was misguided. That he somehow sees this country as being in need… — Bill O'Reilly 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
I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could… — Sue Townsend 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
I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things. — Nick Love 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
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
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
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
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
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
Everybody in the working class is important, whether you're black or white and that's what I want them to feel and know… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily. — bell hooks 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
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