“Every ever you are in the world, you have to work to earn a living.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
“I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
Certainly in my generation, there aren't enough actors from a working-class background. — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and… — James Sinegal Copy Share Image
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
I think that the Democratic Party must always remember what made so many proud to be Democrats, which is a focus on… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Not all of the white working class struggles. I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
I am the typical British aspiring working class. To be called 'elite' by people who have inherited wealth and run hedge funds… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
For the British working class, the restrictions of conflict actually improved their diet. Under Lord Woolton, the minister for food, a programme… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
I think that's why Kath and Kim make me crngie so much. With the added factor of the middle class laughing at… — Jafeth Copy Share Image
Whether or not the working class came to Chicago in 1969 in the Days of Rage is not a measure of their… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I hadn't been to drama school, I was from a somewhat working class background. America seemed to be a little more forward… — Harris Dickinson 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
If you want to really sort of quantify the dereliction of the Republican establishment, those two facts are the most important two… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy,… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
“This city-and-corporate-led “pro-arts” agenda runs the risk of not only driving out present art-making residents out via a combination of gate-keeping and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is not enough that the conditions of labour are concentrated at one pole of society in the shape of capital, while… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“A history of the working class in the United States should, first of all, give a sense of what is meant by… — Paul Le Blanc Copy Share Image
“The final proof that this alien indoctrination which begins in nursery school is based on the splitting of the family is that… — Mariarosa Dalla Costa Copy Share Image
