Blood Quote by Karl Marx

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and…

— Harold Bloom

“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

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

— Harriet Martineau

The Aristocratic Institutions of England [had] acted much like the Slavery Institutions of America... [in] demoralis[ing] large classes outside their own special boundaries... [in…

— John Bright

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

— Pierre-Jospeh Proudhon

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“These classes, according to the degree of enlightenment at which they have arrived, may propose to themselves two very different ends, when they thus…

— Bastiat, Frederick

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I would like to remind you that both assimilation and integration apply to the working classes in the nineteenth century, at least in Britain…

— Norbert Elias

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil...

— Abraham Lincoln

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

— Joseph Stalin

These people—the employed, the somewhat privileged—are drawn into alliance with the elite. They become the guards of the system, buffers between the upper and…

— Howard Zinn