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There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.
J. D. Vance
Government
Day
Class
Blame
Problems
White
Society
Cultural
Movement
Gains
Working
Working-Class
Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
J. D. Vance
Needs
Class
Simple
Problems
Too Much
Church
White
Too
Project
Complex
Neither
More
Onto
Like
Excuse
Nor
Trump
Than
Offers
Little
Fiery
Much
Working
Working-Class
Villains
Sermons
If you're white working class, it's very easy to caricature the elites, and if you're elite, it's very easy to caricature the white working class.
J. D. Vance
You
Class
White
Caricature
Easy
Very
Working
Working-Class
Elite
Elites
I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.
JR
Together
People
Calm
Tension
Without
Mixed
Up
Grew
Suburb
Suburbs
Working-Class
I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
Jack Gould
Class
Half
Other
Hire
Working
Working-Class
The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.
Jane Bryant Quinn
Best
Neighborhoods
Properties
Highest
Investments
Because
Yields
Fancy
Working-Class
I come from a very working-class background.
Janet Montgomery
Background
Come
Very
Working-Class
It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.
Janos Kadar
Class
Anger
People
Speak
Power
Country
Our
Only
Attack
Democratic
Reactionary
Order
Burning
Against
Capital
Working
Working-Class
Elements
You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.
Jay Baruchel
You
Montreal
Definitely
Underdog
Up
Canada
Skinny
Working-Class
Grow
Grow Up
While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
Jim Ratcliffe
Life
Family
Community
Unions
Early Years
Spent
Brought
Part
Most
Were
Years
Up
Did
Family Life
Being
While
Certainly
Working-Class
Play
Early
'Working Class Man' is my second memoir and is a continuation of my story from where 'Working Class Boy' left off. The book is really an attempt at explaining the impact of my childhood on myself and the ones I loved as an adult.
Jimmy Barnes
Myself
Class
Man
Book
Memoir
Impact
Adult
Attempt
Boy
Continuation
Off
Left
Childhood
Where
Loved
Story
Explaining
Really
Working
Working-Class
Second
Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.
Jo Cox
Class
Culture
Bit
Cambridge
Odd
Been
Shock
Going
Anywhere
Holiday
Apart
Working
Working-Class
Who
I come from blue collar. I'm very working class.
Joe R. Lansdale
Class
Collar
Come
Very
Blue
Blue-Collar
Working
Working-Class
People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That's what brought the game alive.
John Higgins
Love
Game
People
Back
Alive
Brought
Fell
Fellow
Working-Class
Belfast
Streets
Alex
Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks.
John Hume
Class
People
Before
Background
Borrow
Arrival
Were
Banks
Poor
Working
Working-Class
Union
Who
Credit
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.
John Hume
Fashion
You
Class
Together
Politicians
Living
Difficult
Several
Districts
Had
House
Because
Housing
Doing
Were
Very
Discriminatory
Families
Get
Controlled
Working
Working-Class
Who
My dad was working class.
Johnny Flynn
Class
Working
Working-Class
Dad
We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
Johnny Van Zant
Class
People
About
Write
Always
Real
America
Common
Stories
Common People
Common Things
Working
Working-Class
Things
I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message.
Johnny Van Zant
Day
Class
People
Song
Band
Think
Relate
Never
Songs
Written
Message
Messages
Been
Just
Working
Working-Class
I meet people from really grand backgrounds who had horrible parents who took no interest in them, whereas I'm a working-class boy from Deptford who was worshipped by all my rellies. Everybody in my extended family helped to raise me, and I realise now how lucky I was to grow up among kind folk.
Jools Holland
Family
Me
People
Parents
Everybody
Took
Meet
Backgrounds
Worshipped
Kind
Folk
Horrible
No Interest
Had
Boy
How
Up
Whereas
Realise
Grand
Interest
Them
Really
Working-Class
Who
Helped
Lucky
Grow
Grow Up
Now
Among
Extended
Extended Family
Raise
The BBC say we need more working-class comedies, which is rubbish. We need funny comedies; it doesn't matter where they come from.
June Whitfield
Funny
Matter
Rubbish
Say
More
Come
Comedies
Where
Which
Working-Class
Need
The working-class Africans are not doing very well, and one of the problems is their education is so shocking. It is routinely said it is a result of apartheid. Deliberately, black people were not allowed to know too much. They could read and write a bit to be useful, but that's about it.
Justin Cartwright
Education
People
Result
Problems
Too Much
Black
Too
Bit
One Of The Problems
About
Deliberately
Could
Write
Allowed
Know
Well
Read
Said
Doing
Were
Very
Shocking
African
Apartheid
Much
Useful
Working-Class
Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.
Karl Radek
Class
Socialism
Sometimes
Other
Independent
Some
Categories
Without
Opposed
Mixture
Different
Which
Interests
Working
Working-Class
Each
I spent the 1960s and 1970s seeking myself - the working-class tradition of self-education.
Ken Livingstone
Myself
Spent
Seeking
Self-Education
Tradition
Working-Class
If you don't like the NRA, get a million black people to join. Go to the convention. Realize that this ain't white people in hoods, just regular working class people like you that are probably going to be friendly and engage you. And then add your thoughts to the agenda.
Killer Mike
Thoughts
You
Class
People
Black
White
Add
Join
Like
Go
Friendly
Get
Going
Just
Convention
Agenda
Realize
Then
Regular
Working
Engage
Your
Working-Class
Million
I grew up working class in Atlanta.
Killer Mike
Class
Atlanta
Up
Grew
Working
Working-Class
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