215 Working-Class Quotes for You to Enjoy

I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. Nikita Khrushchev

You Class Will Trouble Own Once Course Said Got Bury Working Your Shovel Working-Class

There is no employing class, no working class, no farming class. You may pigeonhole a man or woman as a farmer or a worker or a professional man or an employer or even a banker. But the son of the farmer will be a doctor or a worker or even a banker, and his daughter a teacher. The son of a worker will be an employer - or maybe president. Herbert Hoover

Teacher You Class Man Woman Son Doctor Will Daughter President Employer Employing Pigeonhole His May Maybe Banker Worker Working Farmer Farming Working-Class Professional Even

I'm a working-class person, working with class. Karl Lagerfeld

Class Person Working Working-Class

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Running Bottom New Advocacy Left New Yorkers Fierce Working-Class

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

Freedom Ghetto Spirit Only Boy Revolutionary Nationalist Repression Creates Working-Class

There are only two roads, victory for the working class, freedom, or victory for the fascists which means tyranny. Both combatants know what's in store for the loser. Buenaventura Durruti

Freedom Class Victory Tyranny Only Both Roads Know Loser Store Which Working Means Working-Class Fascists Two

Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat. Rosa Luxemburg

Class Too Proletariat Rising Bourgeois Historical Undoubtedly Domination Against Capital Working Working-Class Socialist Grave Necessity

I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place. Dennis Lehane

Me Struggle World Father Rage Society Way Immigrant Seeing About Through Make Him Tied How His His Way Lot Up Modeled Happen Place Working-Class Keep Things Watching

Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture. Frank Rich

Culture Shopping Money Too Spent Wealthy Easy Enthusiastically Followed Consumerism Lead Between Go Were His Celebrity Celebrity Culture Decade American After In-Between Whether Bush Ask Working-Class

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. George Orwell

The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born, and I am honored to be a part of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen. Joan Crawford

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak. Agnes Smedley

Precariousness is not just a working-class thing. Alissa Quart

Just Working-Class Thing

I actually like the sort of industrial, working-class woman like Rosie the Riveter, so I'm kind of like the sort of street style of the '50s. Andra Day

Woman Style Kind Like Industrial Sort Rosie Working-Class Street Actually

I don't ever think of myself as coming from a particular class because my father was working class but made his living as a newspaper foreign correspondent - someone of no fixed abode, as he used to say - who was as comfortable dining with the Mountbattens in India as he was having a pint with the boys. He was very gregarious. Anne Reid

Myself Class Father Made Living Think Say Dining Correspondent India Abode Someone Having He Particular Comfortable Because Boy Foreign Coming His Pint Very Fixed Gregarious Newspaper Working Used Working-Class Who Ever

When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books were a poor second to the television, which was always on, usually with me in front of it. Anthony McCarten

Me Bible Books Television Only Contained House Household Always Were Up Front Grew Which Poor Cookbook Working-Class Second Two

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children. Armstrong Williams

Work Time Day Home Class Dignity Heroes Solitary Find About Attention Come Another Still Go Quiet Interact Children Far Far Less Working Less Working-Class Who Routines Grueling Receiving

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great. Armstrong Williams

Great Class Man People Wealth Made Country Society Everyday Our Admire Seem Somehow Tend Accumulate Forget Working Working-Class Who

The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from. Asa Larsson

People Rest Considered Kind More Drink Area Part Isolated Educated Very Unemployment Than Northern Sociable Sweden Working-Class

I love just working. I love the idea of being a working class citizen. Ben Schwartz

Love Class Citizen Idea Just Being Working Working-Class

My upbringing was very straightforward suburban working class upbringing. Billy Bragg

Class Very Upbringing Suburban Straightforward Working Working-Class

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