Class Quotes

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I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels,… — Frank Lampard
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. — Lionel Blue
I loved the gentlemanly way they treated each other. It was unlike anything I was used to. I started helping them strike the set and,… — Jeffrey Tambor
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. — Alphonso Jackson
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how… — Ann Beattie
Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville. — James Weldon Johnson
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. — Constance Baker Motley
We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens. — Dora Russell
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and… — Irvine Welsh
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the… — Karl Liebknecht
Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But I cannot recite, even thus rudely, laws of the intellect, without remembering that lofty and sequestered class of men who have been its prophets… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized. — Ernst Toller
Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other. — Karl Radek
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. — Judith Martin
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument… — Leon Jouhaux
Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations. — Karl Liebknecht
The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. — James S. Coleman
A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity. — H.G. Wells
We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should not just be… — Victor Suarez Melendez

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