American history Quote by Nancy Isenberg

“What is key to America's understanding of class is the persistent belief - despite all evidence to the contrary - that anyone, with the…

— Michelle Alexander

The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on…

— Benjamin Carson

In a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all…

— Noam Chomsky

Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among…

— F. Sionil Jose

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

It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called…

— Richard Hofstadter

In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a…

— Matt Taibbi

As the classes in modern life come together, we have become much more intensely class conscious. It's a very curious thing. But I deal…

— Louis Auchincloss

“Class never runs scared. It is sure-footed and confident. It can handle anything that comes along. Class has a sense of humor. It knows…

— Ann Landers

“fundamental to the concept of an elite is the idea that its members must merit their status in the judgment of others and that…

— Thomas R. Martin

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the…

— Ed Miliband