Working Class Quotes

264 quotes by 208 authors

It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty… — John Michael Greer
I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. — Jay Gould
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles. — Rosa Luxemburg
The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles...Social democracy...is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a… — Rosa Luxemburg
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat. — Andrei Platonov
We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding… — Noam Chomsky
In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses. — Van Jones
And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express… — Joanna Russ
Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class. — James Callaghan
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect — Roy Jenkins
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class. — Vladimir Lenin
Every time the media brings up the tea party, it's painted as racist and extremists -- but there's never a backlash, no outrage to those… — Hank Williams, Jr.
Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland. — James Connolly
We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to… — Raymond Williams
Freedom for the working class! — Mother Jones
People are very proud of Newcastle, very proud to come from here. This is a working class City and they just want to enjoy themselves… — Alan Shearer
There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store… — Buenaventura Durruti
We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose… — Buenaventura Durruti
The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of… — C L R James
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination — David Allan Coe

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