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“No one imagines keeping the powerful low for long, apart from anything because if the peasants governed and the lords worked the land, everyone would quickly die of hunger, because everyone gets the hands they deserve.”

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“She was shocked when she followed her aunt and cousin down into the city proper. The streets were crawling with people, all hurrying to and fro, mindless of one another. They brushed by with barely even a glance, stepping down into the busy roads between horse drawn buses and draymen’s carts with such confidence, seemingly oblivious that they could be run down at any moment. Children dodged in and out amongst them, ragamuffins all, some barefoot.”

Romance Women Fiction Class Struggle England Historical Workers Inequality City Manchester Victorian Child Labor Mill

Book:The Mill Owner's Son

Source: The Mill Owner's Son

“You two start on home, Daisy,' said Tom. 'In Mr Gatsby's car.' She looked at Tom, alarmed now, but he insisted with magnanimous scorn. 'Go on. He won't annoy you. I think he realises that his presumptuous little flirtation is over.”

Class Humiliation Place

Book:The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

“Paco Fuentes," Mrs. Peterson says, pointing to the table behind Mary. The handsome young man with pale blue eyes like his mother's and smoky black hair like his father's takes his assigned seat. Mrs. Peterson regards her new student over the glasses perched on her nose. "Mr. Fuentes, don't think this class will be a piece of cake because your parents got lucky and developed a medication to halt the progression of Alzheimer's. Your father never did finish my class and he flunked one of my tests, although I have a feeling your mother was the one who should have failed. But that just means I'll expect extra from you.”

Past Mother Father Class Son Future Parents Test Alex Fuentes Brittney Mrs Peterson Paco Fuentes Seating Arrangements Twenty Three Years Later

Book:Perfect Chemistry

Source: Perfect Chemistry

“Even the ways we don’t eat are based in class. The middle class don’t eat in support groups. The poor can’t afford not to eat at all. The rich hire someone to not eat with them in private.”

Class Eating

Book:Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul

Source: Minding the Body: Women Writers on Body and Soul

“The achievement gap between children from high income and low income families is roughly 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than among those born 25 years ago. The class gap among students entering kindergarten was two to three times higher than the racial gap.”

Class Achievement Gap Racial

Author:Robert D. Putnam

“The radical implication of the expansion of higher education has been disguised by a myth which dubs all educated working class people as middle class. By definition working class people are not intelligent, so if you've got a degree you must be middle class. This nonsense is reinforced by the fact that acedemic traditions are laden with class assumptions and are presented in upper class styles even in the Polytechnics.”

Education Class Perception Prejudice Oppression

Book:Class Myths and Culture

Source: Class Myths and Culture

“That’s the difference between them and us. ‘Them’ view foxes as vermin, and ‘us’ identify with the fox.”

Class Prejudice Vermin Fox Hunting

Book:Consort : The Prince and the Pauper

Source: Consort : The Prince and the Pauper

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