Working Class Quotes

264 quotes by 208 authors

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! — Mother Jones
I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for… — Caroline Kennedy
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of… — Patrick J. Kennedy
I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your… — Nikita Khrushchev
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves. — Barbara Kruger
I'm a working-class person, working with class. — Karl Lagerfeld
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. — Vladimir Lenin
I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. — Annie Lennox
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess. — Ken Livingstone
I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in… — John Lydon
Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but,… — Rosa Luxemburg
My sympathies have always been for working-class people. — Christa McAuliffe
When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a… — Michael Moore
New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live. — Michael Moore
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us. — Michael Moore
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. — Bill O'Reilly
Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give… — Gary Oldman
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it… — George Orwell
I'm very much in the trenches, and I don't live in the lap of luxury. I come from a working-class military family. We watch the… — Pink
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of… — John Polkinghorne

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