Working-Class Quotes

70 quotes by 65 authors

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
My sympathies have always been for working-class people. — Christa McAuliffe
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
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
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
I come from a pretty working-class neighborhood in Chicago. Hard work was just expected of you. It wasn't some noble thing you did; it was… — John C. Reilly
I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. — Bobby Sands
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house. — Martin Scorsese
I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class. — Rod Stewart
I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up… — Dwight Yoakam
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure. — Hanna Rosin
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. — Unknown Author
I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really… — Cara Buono
I come from a very working-class background. — Janet Montgomery
There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace… — Mark Haddon
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily. — bell hooks
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well. — Matt de la Pena
In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in… — Matt de la Pena
I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things. — Nick Love
I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life. — Israel Horovitz

Who Wrote These Working-Class Quotes

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