Working Class Quotes

264 quotes by 208 authors

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour
The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created. — Javier Bardem
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My… — Ben Affleck
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain… — Michael Caine
The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game. — Eric Cantona
The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized… — Ralph Chaplin
All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said.… — John Henrik Clarke
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can… — Jarvis Cocker
War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the working class against other similarly… — Cindy Sheehan
The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you. — John Mortimer
I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and… — Howard Schultz
A working class hero is something to be. — John Lennon
...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle… — Karl Marx
The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that… — Michael Gove
The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him… — George Orwell
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there… — Ezra Koenig
If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and we'll take that… — Kerry Packer
...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution,… — Friedrich Engels
...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by slow changes, by… — J. Stalin

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