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Thinking about tracking ... Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your social
class was established for the rest of your life. — Marge Piercy

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern. — Josephine Herbst

Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy. — Betty Smith

Class is a stronger social adhesive than nationality. — Elly Griffiths

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. — Friedrich Engels

We were not in the same social class but at least we were at the same bed. — Marjane Satrapi

P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition of poverty — Ivan Illich

It is childish to study a work of fiction in order to gain information about a country or about a social class or about the author. — Vladimir Nabokov

The only genuine hope of feminist liberation lies wth a vision of social change which challenges class elitism. — Bell Hooks

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result. — James Hillman

The problem is just too big to solve. This life is much easier if we all just pretend to have a heart. — E.P. Shelky

This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer. — Ursula K. Le Guin

you can't hide from a hurricane under a beach umbrella — Philip Rahv

I was in the class they made 'The Social Network' about. — Trip Adler

It lies like a leper in purple, it sits like a dead thing smeared with gold. — Oscar Wilde

Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race. — Jonathan Michel Metzl

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement. — James S. Coleman

From what I could see, men or women, children or adults, young or aged, rich or poor, war was making everyone equal. — Alephonsion Deng

Morals are like social classes, there are poor and rich people. — Eyden I.

Plague did not honor social class, and mortality among the nobility approximated that of the general population. — Robert Steven Gottfried

In the privacy of my dreams, I'm a warrior. — Kimberly Derting

For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. — Judith Martin

The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale. — Gore Vidal

A real man would have fought to be with the woman he loved - social class be damned. — Kelly Oram

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States. — Christopher Hitchens

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn. — Mark Twain

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions. — Faye Wattleton

A robust Liberian middle-class fosters the advancement of social wealth and a well-educated Liberian society. — Henry Johnson Jr

Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of days revolution — Owen H. Lewis

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect. — Roy Jenkins

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since. — Rich Sommer

In a rural society communities are "given" for the individual. Community is a fact, whether family or religion, social class or caste. — Peter Drucker

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. — George Bernard Shaw

Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class. — Emily James Smith Putnam

At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class. — Eric Jay Beck

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes. — Christina Stead

The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,' he said. 'The rich cannot afford to be. — M.R.C. Kasasian

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class. — Edmund White

General improvements in health/decline in mortality do not affect all classes equally. As mortality rates fall, social inequalities commonly widen. — Michael Marmot

It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops. — Ernest Bramah

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. — Ernest Mandel

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. — Albert Einstein

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created. — Paul Smith

Class is more than income - it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships. — Neal Stephenson

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times. — Noam Chomsky

a political class deeply sensitive to its moral and social responsibilities. — Tony Judt

Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? — Charlotte Bronte

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

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life. — H.W. Brands