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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 am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic. — Cara Buono

I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes. — Peter O'Toole

Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect back their beliefs. — Neneh Cherry

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

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern. — Noam Chomsky

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

I love just working. I love the idea of being a working class citizen. — Ben Schwartz

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

There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community — David Riesman

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

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. — Elia Kazan

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

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half. — Jack Gould

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of. — Dalton Trumbo

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

In the fourth quadrant (lower right), working-class people are motivated to take on green-collar jobs and start green businesses. — Van Jones

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy. — Nigel Cole

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

The first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy. — Karl Marx

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

whenever people ask me what I'd most like to change about the white working class, I say, "The feeling that our choices don't matter. — J.D. Vance

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. — JR

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

Women, even more than the working class, is the great unknown quantity of the race. — Keir Hardie

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

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. — Bobby Sands

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

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children. — Alan Jackson

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'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. — Annie Lennox

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

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized. — Ernst Toller

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

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

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

The most important word in the language of the working class is "solidarity." — Harry Bridges

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 working class must control the factories and the country — Alan Woods

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 astronauts who came in with me in my astronaut class - my class had 29 men and 6 women - those men were all very used to working with women. — Sally Ride

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

I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break. — Joyce Rachelle

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