Working Class Quotes

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

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

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

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.

You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief.

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.

I'm not normally a jewelry person. I'm supposed to be a working class champion and all, and I don't like to rub my success in people's faces.

Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.

The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

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.

I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

I'm a working class lad.

I would have put more emphasis on bringing working class people together to fight for a government that works for all of us.

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

In Courtney Moreno's In Case of Emergency the working class save the world and themselves. A wonderful first book!

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

If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.

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.

We did phenomenally well with young people. I think we did well with working class people.

Organizing the working class in England or the U.S. or any other advanced capitalist country has been a daunting challenge.

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

Michael Jackson was part of that tremendous wave in the ocean of human expression and it happened to be located first and foremost in Gary, Indiana, working class.

"Get Rich or Die Tryin". That's the universal struggle. When I say it it might seem a bit negative but if a working class person says it it means they're determined.

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

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

Those who advocate devaluation are calling for a reduction in the wage levels and the real wage standards of every member of the working class.

The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.

I have that working class fear of having nothing. I've always got one eye on what's in the bank.

As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

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

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

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.