Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for 40 years. I thought that was contemptible - what do they want to do, ghettoize the working class as a subject? ...
Honey, it isn’t democracy that runs this country. Capitalism rules. It does no good to reason with the capitalists or their politicians. This is a class war. We have to stir up the American people, the lower class. Some of the better-off lower clas...
..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people.
Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.
I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.
These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.
With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories about the maids and the engineers, the people downstairs in the galleys.
My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.
I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.
People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.
I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.
I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.
If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.
All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.
It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
