Working Class Quotes

264 quotes by 208 authors

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case… — D. H. Lawrence
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate peoples into a state of poverty,… — Pope Clement VIII
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public… — Henrik Ibsen
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes,… — George Orwell
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. — Martin Amis
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack… — Daniel De Leon
I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family. — Olivier Martinez
I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his… — Dennis Lehane
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest… — Bill Pascrell
I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York. — Amy Ryan
I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in… — Bubba Sparxxx
I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. — Timothy Spall
My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position. — Denise Mina
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did… — Denise Mina
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. — Ernest Mandel
On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in… — Ernest Mandel
The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up… — Ernest Mandel
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness… — Ernest Mandel
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education. — Ken Livingstone
There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community — David Riesman

Who Wrote These Working Class Quotes

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