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We must begin to create a revolutionary, multiracial women's movement that seriously addresses the main issues affecting poor and working-class women.
— Angela Y. Davis
The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.
— Timothy Noah
I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.
— Sandra Cisneros
People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That's what brought the game alive.
— John Higgins
I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.
— Tom Brokaw
I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
— Peter O'Toole
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.
— Cesar Luis Menotti
In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.
— Matt De La Pena
In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
— Martin Amis
Freedom for the working class!
— Mother Jones
When we say "the state," the state is We, it is we, it is the proletariat, it is the advanced guard of the working class.
— Vladimir Lenin
member of the upper crust. He's a working class bloke, born with a tin spoon in his mouth. In our
— Magda Alexander
Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
— Martin Scorsese
Being working class wasn't about words, it could only be expressed through the body.
— Christos Tsiolkas
Pacifism, the preaching of peace in the abstract, is one of the means of duping the working class.
— Vladimir Lenin
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
— Vladimir Lenin
I understand working-class culture, tribalism and the ethos of violence, so I make films about these things.
— Nick Love
When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.
— Anna Kendrick
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
— Martin Scorsese
One of the basic tenets of the working class is you want to get out of the working class.
— Michael Moore
Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.
— John Polkinghorne
I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.
— Douglas Booth
New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.
— Michael Moore
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.
— John Prescott
Legendary rock musician. Poet laureate of the working class. Voice of America's conscience.
— Harrison Howe
What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand?
— Haruki Murakami
You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.
— Jay Baruchel
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
— Ken Livingstone
The working class must break up, smash the "ready-made state machinery," and not confine itself merely to laying hold of it.
— Vladimir Lenin
There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
— Bill Vaughan
'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.
— Jason Scott Lee
I liked work shoes and big, working-class hands. The stars would come and go, but the crew on my movies was my extended family.
— Shirley Temple
In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said It is the trade entering his body.
— Annie Dillard
In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!
— Ali Liebegott
The working class had imposed upon them a sterile and authoritarian educational system which mirrored the ethos of the corporate workplace.
— Anthony M. Platt
Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy.
— Karl Marx
I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.
— Cindy Sheehan
I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world
— Vivienne Westwood
Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.
— James Callaghan
The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself - without the assistance of governments.
— Pierre-jospeh Proudhon
If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
— Hanna Rosin
The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.
— E.P. Thompson
The working class positively benefited from Hitler's rule, under which the standard of living was raised till it became the highest in Europe.
— Hugh Trevor-Roper
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
— Jane Bryant Quinn
I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.
— Sacha Baron Cohen
Unlike the Tory millionaires, I live in the heart of the proud working-class community of the Bogside in Derry.
— Martin McGuinness
Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.
— Terry Eagleton
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
— Ernest Mandel
The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
— Andrei Platonov
I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.
— Michael Caine
I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.
— Susan Straight
Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else.
— Peter Arshinov
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
— Jarvis Cocker
I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.
— Peter O'Toole
I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.
— Timothy Spall
The working-class black Southern Christian culture I come from still nurtures me, and I mean directly, daily.
— Bell Hooks
I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now.
— Neil Patrick Harris
I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.
— Jasper Carrott
Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.
— Allison Anders
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
— Bat For Lashes
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
— Mother Jones
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
What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.
— Bernie Sanders
Belonging to the working class is the economy's punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I owe my allegiance to the working class.
— Seamus Costello
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
— David Allan Coe
That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
— George Orwell
I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.
— Elton John
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
— Arthur Balfour
The principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.
— Richard Cobden
Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class.
— Jackie Speier
If an earthworm in the ground won't starve to death, then neither will we, the working class." He
— Mo Yan
If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.
— Anthony Bourdain
The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.
— Eric Cantona
This business of the working class is on its way out I think. After all, aren't I working class? I work jolly hard, I can tell you.
— Margaret Thatcher
