Working Class Quotes

264 quotes by 204 authors

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at… — Will Shetterly
I grew up in a working-class Catholic family in south Louisiana. I went to a state university. I taught literature, wrote a novel that was… — Nic Pizzolatto
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working… — Kim Jong Il
The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness… — Ernest Mandel
Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class. — Ernest Mandel
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which… — Martin Cruz Smith
The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class. — C L R James
The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination… — James Larkin
My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. — Billy Bragg
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance… — Agnes Smedley
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle… — Ed Miliband
I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school. — Samantha Fox
Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton -… — Douglas Wilder
Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick… — Michael Gove
I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really… — Denise Mina
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background. — Chris Hayes
The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other… — Andrew O'Hagan
These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the… — Kevin Ayers
We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it… — Armstrong Williams
I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to… — Rose Schneiderman

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