Native land Quote by Joseph O Connor

“In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern…

— Edmund Wilson

“Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.…

— Frantz Fanon

“Class in England is no more determined by wealth than it is by occupation.”

— Kate Fox

“The tightly intertwined stories of the white working class and black Americans go back to the prehistory of the United States—and the use of…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose…

— Frederick Busch

“The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.”

— Pierre-Jospeh Proudhon

“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was given away,…

— Victor Hugo