Quotes on Class

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

Unless we make computer science a priority, we risk making gender, class, and racial disparities worse as jobs flow to those with a computer science background.

As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.

The U.S. is just in a class by itself in military expenses. It basically matches the rest of the world, and it's far more advanced.

I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

There's always been a nasty strain of class prejudice ingrained in the condemnation of football's 'undeserving rich,' as if the working class is uniquely susceptible to being corrupted by money, and as if they deserve their wealth less than those born to it.

And I believe we should strengthen unions which have formed the bedrock of a strong middle class. It should be easier to bargain collectively. That's not only fair, it makes workers more productive, it strengthens our economy.

Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

When you see a country take care of its people regardless of class, or how much money they make, or what color they are, that's pretty inspiring.

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

Being young, working class, and black, everything you do is policed. If someone hits you and you hit back, you are aggressive. If you cry, you are weak. You are kind of always pretending to be something.

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud.

Class is something that I think seriously about and try to organise my politics around. I think there are lots of novels that don't really engage with questions of class at all, and they get less conversation about issues of social privilege than I do. But it's better to try and talk about it and maybe fail.

I wake up every morning, and I go to ballet class no matter what's going on the night before. That's my priority, and that's what makes me feel sane and not removed from the realities of my world.

I feel like going to class every morning is so humbling. You're always working to improve, and you're always being critiqued on your next performance. It's not about what you've done. There's always room to grow.