Working Class Quotes - Page 13

• I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape - but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community - to society?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Class, Community, Want

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?”, p.17, Random House

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• Freedom for the working class!

  Mother Jones

  Class

  "Autobiography of Mother Jones" by Mary Harris Jones, Courier Corporation, (p. 146), April 30, 2012.

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• Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.

  Russell Brand

  Children, Animal, Class

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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• The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Class, People

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• 'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

  Jason Scott Lee

  Easter, Islands, Class

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• The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and most thoroughly revolutionary. The entire history of revolution proves that without the leadership of the working class revolution fails and that with the leadership of the working class revolution triumphs.

  Mao Zedong

  Class, People, Triumph

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• I'm not working-class: I come from the criminal classes.

  Peter O'Toole

  Class, Criminals, Crime

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• After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first is internal, that is, the contradiction between the working class and the bourgeoisie. The second is external, which is the contradiction between China and the imperialist countries. Consequently, after the victory of the people's democratic revolution, the state power of the people's republic under the leadership of the working class must not be weakened but must be strengthened.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Chinese Revolution, Land

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• The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly on the alliance of the workers and the peasants, because these two classes comprise 80 to go per cent of China's population. These two classes are the main force in overthrowing imperialism and the Kuomintang reactionaries. The transition from New Democracy to socialism also depends mainly upon their alliance.

  Mao Zedong

  Class, Two, People

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.

  Caitlin Moran

  Class, World, Fats

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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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• 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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• 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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• The mode of reconciling the promise of ever-increasing reward for the cadres and the demands of the working classes for a quid pro quo for their loyalty to the state was to offer the latter a small piece of the pie.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Loyalty, Pie, Class

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• 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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• 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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• We both [with Donald Trump] share a desire to ensure that governments are working for everyone and particularly that governments are working for ordinary working families and working-class families. And I think that's important. That's what I've spoken about.

  Theresa May

  Thinking, Class, Government

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Whether or not the working class came to Chicago in 1969 in the Days of Rage is not a measure of their commitment to stopping the war or to seeing life in certain way. There were very few of us who were there, and those of us that were had an illusion about ourselves.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Commitment, Class

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped America of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.

  Donald Trump

  Class, America, Decision

  "Festival of Slights, the 5th Night: Trump’s Closing Argument to Voters" by Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2017.

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• I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Fighting, People, Boxing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible and change their consciousness. He wanted to reach the "working classes" in England. The kind of music he was making was very much from the academy, even though it had a lot in common with things like free jazz and improvisation, and he felt that it was the music of the elite, and that he wasn't really speaking to the people.

  Alasdair MacLean

  People, Interesting, Jazz

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.

  Michael Yates

  Issues, Race, Class

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you know, a working-class insurgency from below, they are a mass of contradictions; they don't have a single consistent viewpoint; but part of their impulse is to be wary of government.

  Bill Ayers

  Party, Government, Class

  Source: thepointmag.com

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