My father and I used to tussle about me becoming an actor. He's from strong, Presbyterian Scottish working-class stock, and he used… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and… — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the… — Kevin Ayers Copy Share Image
The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
One glance proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that these unions (railroad craft unions) are exceedingly useful to the corporations; and… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
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“The historical moment when Bolshevism triumphed for itself in Russia and social democracy fought victoriously for the old world marks the inauguration… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
“What Dad taught me above all else, and did so utterly unconsciously, was why people like him became Tories. He had been… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
“Ok I'm not so smart I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running and it's the working… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Whether an activity is performed in private or in public is by no means a matter of indifference. Obviously, the character of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the panic of white slavery lives on in our politics today. Black workers suffer, something in nature has gone awry. And… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The acting I got into by doing what we call pantomime, when I was sixteen. And, there were loads of very pretty… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
When Benjamin Disraeli spoke of the 'two nations' in Britain he was perfectly right, only the working classes were not exactly a… — Norbert Elias Copy Share Image
The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But this new class seeks to reduce the American working class to the levels of this global serfdom. After all, anything that… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been… — Bill Pascrell Copy Share Image
Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want… — Alan Shearer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What's really striking here is that a candidate who ran as the Paladin of the working class who'd deliver them picks a… — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
I'm from a working-class family. We didn't have a lot, but we had the arts. You're talking to a guy who is… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
“He’s always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class,… — Ida Løkås Copy Share Image
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“However you want to define these two groups and their approach to giving—rich and poor; educated and uneducated; upper-class and working-class—their members… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of… — Grover Furr Copy Share Image
Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man's look. With good tailoring and well chosen neckwear, the look connotes power, taste, refinement,… — Roger Stone Copy Share Image
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of… — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes that there's this sense that people are poor because they want to be, or they're working-class because they want… — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
“You don’t understand the class structure of American society," said Smetana, "or you would not ask such a question. In the United… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
I grew up poor with a very distinctive working-class accent. In England in the 1980s and 1990s this would have impeded my… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
To be honest, I've never invested in the stock market. My grandmother used to warn us against the stock exchange. My grandfather… — Pratik Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
In Britain, we need to start presenting the option of being a writer in front of black women. We need to present… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
I came to the U.K. at the age of 19 and I didn't know anything about the working-class tradition, the Labour Party… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
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