Working Class Quotes

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

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

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

I make films about working class people.

Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.

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

The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.

We come from the future, essentially, because we have all these ideas about gender equality, sexual freedom, and these are not shared by the working class, the peasantry among whom we work.

We know the legislation that passed the House. It was the worst piece of legislation frankly against working class people that I can remember in my political life in the Congress.

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

The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, i.e. is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage.

You can find fulfillment in your work, work with all your heart.

We are endowed with different kinds of gifts for different kinds of services.

You can work to create a bright future.

Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.

I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.

Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

African American women actively contested white constructions of black female labor.

We are just peasants with money.

Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.

America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values.

The emancipation of the working class can only be achieved by the working class itself — without the assistance of governments.