Quotes of: Working-classes Keyword

The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

Timothy Noah

Obama is an intelligent man whose life and work experience sensitize him to class distinctions.

Timothy Noah

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Mother Jones

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

Alfred Marshall

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

Faye Dunaway

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

Dalton Trumbo

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

Eric Cantona

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

David Allan Coe

I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.

Jack Gould

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.

Bubba Sparxxx

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.

Ralph Chaplin

Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

Will Self

I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

Gary Peters

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

R. L. Stine

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, ...

Brady Corbet

What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. ...

Oblivion

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the sp...

Tammy Baldwin

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think America...

Chelsea Clinton

I sort of tried to get a basketball scholarship out of high school, but that didn't happen. Then I started working for UPS, and that paid for tuition for school. I moved to a bigger town, Louisville. I did it for a year. I had to work the graveyard s...

Boyd Holbrook

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always ...

Sloan Wilson