Working Class Quotes

264 quotes by 208 authors

I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was… — John C. Reilly
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and… — Marco Rubio
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. — Bobby Sands
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more… — Margaret Sanger
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. — Martin Scorsese
Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants. — Will Self
You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses… — James Sinegal
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance… — Zadie Smith
I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class. — Rod Stewart
I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up… — Dwight Yoakam
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure. — Hanna Rosin
The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that… — George Orwell
I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe… — Irvine Welsh
But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a sudden cessation of… — Voltairine de Cleyre
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the… — Bell Hooks
I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes. — Peter O'Toole
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie… — Karl Marx
The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class. That… — Ben Aaronovitch
I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with… — Jeanette Winterson

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