Lower Class Quotes
41 quotes by 38 authors
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
— H. Rap Brown
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The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
— Margaret Cho
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No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the…
— Thomas Malthus
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Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.
— Michael Parenti
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My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of…
— Hannah More
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These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and lower…
— Howard Zinn
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Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing…
— David Sedaris
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Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their…
— Lewis Browne
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Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief…
— Samuel Johnson
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We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes...
— John Podesta
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All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering…
— Frank Zappa
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The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.
— Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae
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The whole famous Reign of Terror [of the 1790s] in fifteen months guillotined 2,596 aristos. The Versaillists [the anti-Communards of 1871] executed 20,000 before their…
— Guy Endore
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Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to…
— Aldous Huxley
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Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.
— Howard Zinn
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There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and…
— William Bligh
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Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to…
— John Bartholomew Gough
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You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
— Arthur Laffer
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I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language…
— Paulo Freire
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