Working Class Quotes - Page 11

• There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Class, Government, Challenges

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• My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

  Chris Hayes

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "Chris Hayes: 'I grew up in the Bronx'" by Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. March 28, 2013.

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• The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

  C. L. R. James

  Class, Organization, Political

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• I didn't like the King's Cross world: it was grimy and dirty. I always envisioned myself in much more romantic and grand surroundings. I never really thought that I belonged to the working-class area at all.

  Kenneth Williams

  Kings, Dirty, Class

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• The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:
  1st - When they are neglected in infancy
  
  2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them.
  
  3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour.

  Robert Owen

  Ignorance, Class, Use

  "Two Memorials on Behalf of the Working Classes". Book by Robert Owen, 1818.

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• I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true.

  Tony Benn

  Responsibility, Media, Class

  Tony Benn's Closing address to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, October 6, 1972.

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• Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.

  Henry George

  Land, Class, Progress

  Henry George (2005). “Progress and Poverty”, p.254, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

  Johnny Marr

  Jobs, Father, Class

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.

  Valerie Miner

  Art, Home, Writing

  Valerie Miner (2014). “Rumors from the Cauldron: Selected Essays, Reviews, and Reportage”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially and politically successful in the industrial nations of Western Europe, and that it would develop an entirely new way of human social life that would retain and even enhance the productive benefits of capitalism while overcoming the inhumanity and exploitation of capitalist social relations. Marx himself had no solutions to these problems. His object of study was capitalism itself.

  Allen W. Wood

  Successful, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

  Allen W. Wood

  Class, Movement, Able

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike. The oligarchs were furious because the working class was not supposed to have any power at all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Class, Unions, Franklin

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• 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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• I think three weaknesses have emerged for Hillary Clinton in early states.One is young voters. Another is political independents. He`s winning with independents who show up. But the other one - this is the inverse of what we saw in `08 - working-class white voters. In 2008, they stuck with her all the way.

  Steve Kornacki

  Winning, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Hillary Clinton did better among working-class whites when she's running against Barack Hussein Obama. How is she doing now against an older, a professor type, who seems very unthreatening, very likable.

  Chris Matthews

  Running, Class, Hussein

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Donald Trump is pulling off a world-class scam here. I mean, he's telling people he's all these things that he's never been his entire life. He says he's fighting for the little guy, the working class. He has spent his entire business career sticking it to working people.

  Marco Rubio

  Mean, Fighting, Class

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights, dealing with student debt, which I got to tell you is just crushing people all over this country, making public colleges and universities tuition free, those are the ideas we are bringing out, demanding the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes. This is what younger people, working class people want. That is the future of the Democratic Party.

  Bernie Sanders

  Crush, Country, Party

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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