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My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
— Chris Hayes
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
My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.
— Robert Webb
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'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.
— Peter O'Toole
I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.
— Mark Gatiss
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
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
I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.
— Elizabeth Rodriguez
Being working class wasn't about words, it could only be expressed through the body.
— Christos Tsiolkas
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
My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
— Martin Scorsese
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
I'm a working-class person, working with class.
— Karl Lagerfeld
Corporations with their political allies are waging an unrelenting class war against working people.
— Noam Chomsky
We did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people.
— Bernie Sanders
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
— Arthur Balfour
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
— Mother Jones
I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.
— Elton John
Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.
— Robert Kiyosaki
When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
— Matt De La Pena
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
If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
— Theresa May
I owe my allegiance to the working class.
— Seamus Costello
New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.
— Michael Moore
The principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.
— Richard Cobden
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
Face it: You're always just a breath away from a job in telemarketing.
— Douglas Coupland
I'm a working class lad.
— Rob James-Collier
My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
— Dan Stevens
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
Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.
— Israel Horovitz
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.
— Bill O'Reilly
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.
— David Allan Coe
Most people were annoyed with my voice, I think, because I'm working-class, and that doesn't sound quite right on Radio 4.
— Rhys Thomas
The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.
— E.P. Thompson
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
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.
— Mao Zedong
A working class hero is something to be.
— John Lennon
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
— Constance Baker Motley
Sport must be accessible to working class youth.
— Pierre De Coubertin
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV
— John Lennon
I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.
— Mike Myers
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
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
People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.
— Michael Caine
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'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.
— Bubba Sparxxx
People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.
— Michael Moore
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 enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.
— Rod Stewart
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
I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.
— Israel Horovitz
I make films about working class people.
— Taylor Hackford
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
— Hanna Rosin
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
Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.
— Steny Hoyer
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
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
If you want to pass this class, and if you want to be a lawyer, working for it isn't enough. You'll need to bleed for it.
— J.J. McAvoy
We're working-class people, which means we don't get rich or have maids. Be content with what you are and what you have.
— Colleen McCullough
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
