Working Class Quotes
264 quotes by 208 authors
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
— Andrea Arnold
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
— Arthur Balfour
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The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.
— Javier Bardem
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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
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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
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The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
— Eric Cantona
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A working class hero is something to be.
— John Lennon
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...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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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...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
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...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
Who Wrote These Working Class Quotes
208 authors contributed a total of 264 Working Class Quotes, led by these top contributors: