Class Quotes

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

I'm saying that the moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.

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

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.