Working-Class Quotes

70 quotes by 65 authors

I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My… — Ben Affleck
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain… — Michael Caine
All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said.… — John Henrik Clarke
The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the same horror that… — Michael Gove
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there… — Ezra Koenig
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books. — Len Deighton
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks. — Constance Baker Motley
This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument… — Leon Jouhaux
I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. — R A Salvatore
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced. — Jane Bryant Quinn
I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day… — Sally Field
But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a… — Jim McDermott
I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. — Mark Gatiss
I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in… — Jesmyn Ward
My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think… — Toby Stephens
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor. — Martin Amis
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

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