Quotes of: Upper-class Keyword

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Tony Campolo

If you skip one class, everyone knows about it. The teacher will track you down, or one of the guidance counselors will track you down and ask if you're smoking pot. According to the geniuses running this place, the only reason you would skip class i...

The Boy Recession

Then there was Mani, the Mighty Good-For-Nothing. He towered above all the other boys of the class. He seldom brought any books to the class, and never bothered about homework. He came to the class, monopolized the last bench, ans slept bravely. No t...

Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher

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? ...

Martin Amis

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...

Jerry Ash

..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people.

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies

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.

Paul Bamikole

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

Peter Welch

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

Robert Fortune

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.

Sophie Winkleman

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.

Thomas Piketty

I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

Kevin James

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.

Douglas Fairbanks

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

Cindy Sheehan

I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

Hanna Rosin

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.

Daphne Koller

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

Friedrich Engels

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.

Barack Obama

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.

Jose Saramago

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.

Gloria Steinem

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.

Kamala Harris