Underclass Quotes

21 quotes by 19 authors

Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is… — Zoe Lofgren
What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass — August Strindberg
We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American… — Benedict Groeschel
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in… — James W. Loewen
Do Libertarians care about the poor? Well, we're not ladening them down with debt, we're not sending them off to God damned wars, we're not… — Stefan Molyneux
The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs,… — Andrew O'Hagan
The tax that was supposed to soak the rich has instead soaked America. The beneficiary of the income tax has not been the poor, but… — Paul Craig Roberts
The taxpayer is the new permanent underclass. — Andrew Wilkow
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside. — Zygmunt Bauman
Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned… — Kate Millett
Zionists believe they are entitled by God to the land, groves and homes of the non-Jewish underclass. They quote the Bible as the reference that… — Lee Whitnum
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension… — Henry Louis Gates
The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and… — Henry Louis Gates
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from… — Henry Louis Gates
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive… — Jane Fonda
Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society… — Charles Kuralt
Liberals talk about the 'income inequality' and the 'unfairness' and the disparity of the haves and the have-nots in New York City. Who has been… — Rush Limbaugh
Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass. — Eric Liu
I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an… — Geoffrey Rush
Itâ€™s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of… — John Hodgman

Who Wrote These Underclass Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 21 Underclass Quotes as follows: