Class Quotes - Page 20

• The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.

  Lysander Spooner

  Country, Government, People

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings”

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• We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Fighting, Men, White

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• Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Self, Support, Ordinary

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• The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

  Andy Stern

  Jobs, Government, Creating

  "Exit Interview: SEIU Head Andy Stern Steps Down". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 15, 2010.

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• I enjoy a glass of wine, and I love my football. I suppose it's because I'm a real working-class.

  Rod Stewart

  Football, Real, Wine

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• I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

  Sting

  Want, England, Accents

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• There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school.

  Emma Stone

  School, Men, Spiders

  "Emma Stone: The Cool Girl". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

  Sharon Stone

  Movie, Song, Real

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• A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

  Barbra Streisand

  School, Men, Law

  "The Sexism in American Politics". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2016.

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• I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

  Barbra Streisand

  Acting, Actresses, Medea

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• As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Army, Germany, Generations

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• They don't hang dukes, darling. He'd be let off by reason of insanity. Everyone knows the upper classes are batty.

  Rhys Bowen

  Insanity, Dukes, Reason

  Rhys Bowen (2008). “Her Royal Spyness”, p.178, Penguin

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• Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, 'Flying Fingers,' debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

  Adora Svitak

  Children, Book, School

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• Elodin proved a difficult man to find. He had an office in Hollows, but never seemed to use it. When I visited Ledgers and Lists, I discovered he only taught one class: Unlikely Maths. However, this was less than helpful in tracking him down, as according to the ledger, the time of the class was 'now' and the location was 'everywhere.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Math, Men, Office

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• Candidates don’t want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, People, Ugly

  "The Bad Boy On the Bus: An Interview With Matt Taibbi". Interview with Janelle Nanos, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2005.

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• In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower class. They all like to think of themselves as potential millionaires.

  Matt Taibbi

  Country, Thinking, America

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• It's really interesting that we've had this great Tea Party movement that is all about restoring free market capitalist values, but what they completely fail to understand is that what we've got now is a situation where there is a small class of gigantic financial companies that have put themselves above capitalism.

  Matt Taibbi

  Party, Interesting, Tea

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• Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Meat, Giants

  "Wall Street's Naked Swindle". Article by Matt Taibbi, www.rollingstone.com. April 5, 2010.

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• The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Lessons, Management, Plans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Sports, Country, Kids

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• I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Film, Feds

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• Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sports, Growing Up, Athletic

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “George Will vs. Nick Hornby: An Essay from Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Feelings are facts. Look straight at 'em and deal with 'em. Work it through, as honestly as you can. If God is anything like a middle-class white chick from the suburbs, which I admit is a long shot, it's what you do about what you feel that matters.

  Mary Doria Russell

  White, Long, Feelings

  Mary Doria Russell (1996). “The Sparrow”, Random House

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• What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You’re not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I’m talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it.

  Libba Bray

  Talking, Humanity, Zombie

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• Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

  Pete Townshend

  People, Hypocrisy, Being Sad

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