Class Quote by William Bligh

“There are many oppressed people across the border, people who are dirt poor and have little chance in life. Then there are those who…

— Jacqueline Winspear

Thousands are the children of poor foreigners who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad…

— Charles Loring Brace

The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy.

— Mark Twain

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends…

— Dorothy Allison

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

— Tacitus

In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity:…

— Juan Gines de Sepulveda

“The situation, therefore, in the colonial countries, is tragic,” Cesaire continued. “Wherever colonization is a fact the indigenous culture begins to rot. And, among…

— James Baldwin

In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills…

— James Wolfensohn

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“No happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without unity.” The mildness of all government among them, civil or domestic, may be…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton

...in the midst of migrants in search of a better life there are people in need of protection: refugees and asylum-seekers, women and children…

— Antonio Guterres

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

— Karl Marx