Working Class Quotes - Page 10

• Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.

  Michael Yates

  Race, Class, Issues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to take account of such contextual variables as wartime, security threats, and the societal balance between entrepreneurial and working classes.

  Richard A. Falk

  Class, Rights, Quality

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I always feel like a bit of an outsider myself, but as a working class lad, the system was always against me. The British system itself and then of course all the illnesses that were challenging to me.

  John Lydon

  Class, Challenges, Outsiders

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I think we need leadership that can gently and with affection remind us of what we Americans mostly agree upon: civility, kindness, tolerance, humour, et cetera. The current Trump administration seems to thrive on trying to enforce a very odd, fearful agenda, that it tries to disguise in a false garment of fondness for the working-class - despite the fact that its policies seem designed to continue the decades-long habit of marginalizing that group.

  George Saunders

  Kindness, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous breakdowns and it would paralyze the state. That was the logic of aerial bombing. In fact, it doesn't happen at all, but the logic behind aerial bombing has never stopped, even though it never demoralizes, terrorizes, or paralyzes a population.

  Rebecca Solnit

  War, Class, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would like to remind you that both assimilation and integration apply to the working classes in the nineteenth century, at least in Britain and also Germany. Like most outsider groups compared with the establishment, the working classes were treated more or less with the same kind of stigmatization as immigrant groups are treated today.

  Norbert Elias

  Today, Outsiders, Kind

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• You come out of a working-class environment, you know, working-class kids always put them themselves together because it's one of the only things they had. You had control of your image.

  Ian Astbury

  Kids, Class, Together

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Struggle, Class, Decision

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Class, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• You have to understand that a lot of the working class is not white.

  David Remnick

  Class, White

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My parents both came from very poor working-class families.

  George Michael

  Class, Parent, Poor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities.

  Tucker Carlson

  Class, Community, Rural Communities

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of Sydney. It's a lot more gentrified now. It was very working class, pubs on every corner because it's right by the water so a lot of the guys on the ships and the boats used to go and drink there. It's very posh now.

  Rose Byrne

  Art, Class, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there are many people in the working class who say, you know what? Yes, maybe we are better off than we were eight years ago, but I am still working two or three jobs, my kid can't afford to go to college, I can't afford child care, my real wages have been going down for 40 years. The middle class is shrinking. Who's standing up for me?

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When Donald Trump attacks the trade deals, which have helped to gut the American working class, it's very powerful, even though his solutions are nonsense. And Hillary Clinton can't really defend it, because that's part of the life's work of her and her - of her and her husband.

  Allan Nairn

  Powerful, Husband, Class

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• [Mark] Lilla sees a deeper problem, and he wrote an article in The New York Times denouncing identity liberalism.He says liberals have appealed to African-Americans or women or the LGBT community but failed to craft a strong, broad national message. He's not the only person saying this. Long before the votes were cast, Bernie Sanders argued the Democrats lost the white working class by not speaking broadly to the country.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Strong, New York

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Albert Camus] positions are sensed. So, naturally, those intellectuals who don't have that experience have difficulty in comprehending it. But I think it made Camus more tolerant because he had already seen both sides of things when the others had only ever seen one. They imagine poverty, but they don't know what it is. In fact they've got a sort of bad conscience about the working classes.

  Catherine Camus

  Thinking, Class, Poverty

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• [French intellectuals] could never address themselves to the working classes. They don't know what it means, and that gives them a bad conscience about it. [Albert] Camus has a greater proximity to those in poverty.

  Catherine Camus

  Mean, Class, Giving

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• What's really striking here is that a candidate who ran as the Paladin of the working class who'd deliver them picks a guy who heads a fast-food company, [Donald] Trump says he wants to bring back manufacturing.

  E. J. Dionne

  Class, Guy, Want

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Older Jews think of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and see themselves as siding with the working class and the poor, so they continue to vote the way they do.

  Jackie Mason

  Thinking, Class, Way

  Source: spectator.org

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• There's unrecognizable change happening in Britain. The life prospects and job prospects, particularly of working-class people, have been severely dented. Without anyone being asked.

  Nigel Farage

  Jobs, Class, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar.

  Sacha Baron Cohen

  Thinking, Class, Community

  Source: screenrant.com

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• ...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

  Communication, Winning, Class

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.82, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.

  Emma Goldman

  Pregnancy, America, Class

  "Mother Earth" Journal, 1911.

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• Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.

  Alain de Benoist

  Class, Immigration, Firsts

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