Working Class Quotes - Page 3

• To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Class, Feminist, Connections

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• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  C. L. R. James

  Wall, War, Government

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• Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

  Mao Zedong

  Class, People, Alliances

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.37, China Books

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• If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

  George Orwell

  Character, Class, Ordinary

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

  Martin Amis

  Hero, Class, America

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• I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.

  Ken Livingstone

  Self, Class, Tradition

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• All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor. Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.

  Pope Clement VIII

  Country, Class, Rights

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• In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

  Ali Liebegott

  Book, Class, World

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• There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community

  David Riesman

  Hero, Class, Community

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.158, Transaction Publishers

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• You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

  Jay Baruchel

  Growing Up, Class, Underdog

  "Actor Jay Baruchel: Why I Insisted on a “Butt Double” for New Film". Interview with Bradley Jacobs, www.usmagazine.com. March 12, 2010.

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• In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Class, United States, Republican

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.361, Regnery Publishing

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• The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

  Karl Radek

  Pain, Struggle, Home

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• Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.

  Melanie Brown

  Attitude, Kids, Class

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

  Sean Bean

  Character, Fighting, Class

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• In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

  Nigel Cole

  Class, Aristocracy, England

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• We must be vigilant that we don't sink into the morass of sectarianism, mixing, pettiness etc. We must not get involved in unprincipled slagging matches etc or into positions that are sectarian, anti-revolutionary, morally damaging that give succour to the enemy & that confuse & divide the working class

  Thomas S. Power

  Class, Giving, Enemy

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• Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Self, Class, Understanding

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• I feel like the kind of people I write about are the kind of people I grew up with, the families that I know in my community. Most everyone is working-class, and there are some intact families, but a lot of families aren't.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Writing, Class, People

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• I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.

  Mark Gatiss

  Gay, Men, Class

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• I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

  Alex Ferguson

  Sympathy, Soccer, Class

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• My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

  Graham Norton

  Class, Parent, Way

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 11, 2003.

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• Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

  Armstrong Williams

  Children, Work, Hero

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• I don't think you can get any more working class than me. Everyone seems posh to me.

  Danny Dyer

  Thinking, Class, Posh

  "Question Time". Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2009.

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• But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

  Jim McDermott

  Hurt, Thinking, Government

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• I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

  Sally Field

  Class, Next Day, One Day

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