Class Quotes - Page 7

• I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

  Roger Nash Baldwin

  Goal, Wealth, Socialism

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• When students are first at the Kerouac School we harp on Gertrude Stein's very basic poetic insistence that words are things . Not to invalidate your experience or all the great feelings you have, I tell them. Although poetry may be good for you, it's not therapy. You're making something with words which are visceral, muscular, active, not just markers of how you feel. And we have classes studying William Blake, Ezra Pound, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Stein.

  Anne Waldman

  School, Feelings, Gertrude

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

  Abdallah II

  Moving Forward, Years, Goal

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• Class envy is dangerous.

  Jack Abramoff

  Envy, Dangerous

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• The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

  Gerry Adams

  Forever, Citizens, Gone

  "Speech by Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Féin, to a Sinn Féin selection convention in Navan, County Meath". CAIN in the University of Ulster, December 1, 2004.

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• There isn't a class structure in Nigeria, there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

  Sade Adu

  Prestige, Structure, Concerned

  "Why Sade is bigger in the US than Adele" by Sophie Heawood, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2012.

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• My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

  Ben Affleck

  Mother, Dad, School

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• Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

  Gracie Allen

  Funny, Family, Senior

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• I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

  Kirstie Alley

  Acting, Busy, Too Busy

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• Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

  Eric Alterman

  Party, Tea, World

  Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama”, p.156, Nation Books

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• Everyone has class, one class or another.

  Francesca Annis

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• Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

  Francesca Annis

  England, Middle, Should

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• I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.

  Andrea Arnold

  Writing, Grew Up, Knows

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• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  W. H. Auden

  Birthday, Time, Money

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• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Animal, Action

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• Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

  Hank Azaria

  Real, Loss, Grieving

  "One-Man Show: Hank Azaria". Interview with Mickey Parkin, www.elle.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

  David Bailey

  Silly, School, Dyslexic

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• The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

  David Bailey

  Thinking, Today, Breaking Down

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• I’ve decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what’s right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Running, Powerful, Believe

  "Tammy Baldwin Announces Senate Run In Wisconsin" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business, and they should apply to it as such.

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Should Have, Gentleman, Honor

  Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lucy Aikin (1825). “The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes”, p.17

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• If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

  Lynda Barry

  Students, Thrown, Ifs

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• The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

  Lynda Barry

  Couple, School, Kids

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• Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class.

  Drew Barrymore

  Photography, Art, Lying

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• One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

  Max Beerbohm

  Two, Might, Max

  And Even Now (1920) "Hosts and Guests"

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• I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Spring, Fall, School

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