Working Class Quotes - Page 9

• White working-class voters or working-class voters have felt abandoned, have felt, in many senses, disparaged by the political leadership of America.

  Mark Shields

  Class, White, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Writing, Adventure, Class

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• There's a ton of stuff we can do to help the economy and help the American people, and the aspirational working class of the American people.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Class, People, Stuff

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The rise of globalization, the rise of finance capital, the elimination of the manufacturing base, the decimation of the working class, particularly in terms of those who had some comforts that approximated what the middle class had.

  Henry Giroux

  Class, Comfort, Finance

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Class, Appreciate, Looks

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties.

  Chuck Mosley

  Class, Pay, Bills

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Class, Stuff

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.

  Kshama Sawant

  Struggle, Past, College

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.

  Nadezhda Krupskaya

  Class, Goal, Males

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• Donald Trump is targeting the traditional Republican voters, the average person with an average income, the working class, a certain group of entrepreneurs and those people who embrace traditional values.

  Vladimir Putin

  Average, Class, People

  Source: thesaker.is

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• A public school-educated stockbroker, who wants to shrink the state and let the markets rip, who reinvented himself as a man of the people and convinced millions of disillusioned working-class voters he was on a mission to smash the rich elite he belonged to.

  Brian Reade

  Rip, School, Men

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• There's a lot of good rappers in England at the moment. There's a lot of good dance acts. A lot of good, young guitar acts. I think a lot of groups came from that dole culture of the late 80's/early 90's - it's not as easy now. I think there's a dearth of working class bands.

  Ian Brown

  Thinking, Rapper, Guitar

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• The decision is I'm going to do everything I can to fight for the working class of this country, the low-income people against income and wealth inequality, do everything we can about climate change.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Fighting, Class

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• At the time, Jean-Claude [Juncker] was already an important man in Brussels. I was a young representative in the European Parliament. We talked for a long time and from that point on, our connection became increasingly deep. But our working-class origins are at least as important to our bond.

  Martin Schulz

  Men, Class, Long

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The working-class folks and the poor, and those normal people living their lives out in the world without the glitter and the fanfare. There is a lot to learn from them.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Class, People, World

  "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• The writer Denise Chávez comments on poor food and what you associate with luxury food items. In fact, she wrote a whole book called A Taco Testimony, and though the title sounds light, it's a heavy book. It's about being working class and what kind of food is available to you that's cheap.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Light, Class

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mean, Class, Chicago

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• The issues that I think matter, that I think resonate with the voters are, No. 1, defending our freedoms, defending the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. No. 2, lifting the boot of Washington off of the back of the necks of small businesses so that people can have jobs again, wages can come back again, fighting for the working class, you are getting hammered by Washington. And, No. 3, keeping this country safe, a strong commander in chief we can trust to keep us safe. That's what I'm looking for.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Strong, Jobs

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• People were, in good faith perhaps, writing history books about the Indian working class, Indian peasantry, et cetera, and at no point did Communists make an entry, not even to be criticized. They were essentially being whitewashed from history.

  Vijay Prashad

  Book, Writing, Class

  "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work.

  Vijay Prashad

  Class, Ideas, Gender Equality

  "'Exiles From the Future': An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent. And now it's in the single digits, so it plummeted. And with the plummeting of unions came the weakening of an organized working-class voice in politics.

  George Packer

  Thinking, Class, Voice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The biggest issue for me is whether large numbers of Americans can begin to think that government can actually help make the country a fairer place. And that's partly a matter of policies that achieve results in terms of reducing inequality and raising middle-class and working-class incomes, which have been flat for decades. But it's also symbolic and rhetorical, it's whether Hillary Clinton can - or whoever's president - can persuade Americans that it's happening and that they can begin to trust their elected officials a little bit more and their institutions of government a little bit more.

  George Packer

  Country, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There was a bridge to the 21st century, and yet, somehow, for very large number of Americans, it was unclear how you got from one place to the other, from being a manual working-class man to being some part of a Brooklyn-based sharing economy.

  Judy Woodruff

  Men, Bridges, Class

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

  Danny Glover

  Powerful, Class, Unions

  Source: progressive.org

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• The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

  David Brooks

  Party, Class, Culture

  Source: www.pbs.org

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