Working Class Quotes
264 quotes by 208 authors
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In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in…
— Matt de la Pena
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Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
— Noam Chomsky
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My family was mostly unemployed working class.
— Noam Chomsky
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I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.
— Nick Love
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I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.
— Israel Horovitz
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I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider - very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous…
— Ben Affleck
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The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
— Timothy Noah
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When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our…
— Timothy Noah
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I come from a very working class background. My dad worked in a factory for 40 years. We all put ourselves through school.
— Michelle Monaghan
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A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find…
— Robert Reich
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I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.
— Paul O'Grady
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It is critical that low-income consumers have access to alternative products and services such as rent-to-own. It gives working-class families opportunities to obtain decent household…
— William Lacy Clay, Jr.
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I am from the working class. I am now what I was then. No amount of balsamic vinegar and Prada handbags could make me forget…
— Sue Townsend
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The vast majority of a significant portion of Americans of Hispanic descent will vote - happen to be working class people who are desperate to…
— Marco Rubio
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In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success…
— John Caudwell
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Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a…
— John Caudwell
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It should go without saying that there are as many working-class people who hold socially liberal views as there are public-school bigots.
— Robert Webb
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My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.
— Robert Webb
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I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle…
— Joel Kinnaman
Who Wrote These Working Class Quotes
208 authors contributed a total of 264 Working Class Quotes, led by these top contributors: