Class Quote by Bell Hooks

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

— Bell Hooks

As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.

— Immortal Technique

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war…

— Ralph Bunche

I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems…

— Killer Mike

Our country doesn't care as much about its lower classes as its richer class.

— Quinta Brunson

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this…

— Zoya Akhtar

If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a large pool…

— Howard Zinn

In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism,…

— Sarah Churchwell

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends…

— Dorothy Allison

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

— Ayn Rand

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

— Paul Ryan