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“It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.”

Men World Trying May Doe Has Beens Made Ideas Use Light Culture Winning Levels Known Class Taught Ready Judgment Bounds Currents Atmosphere Inferiors Sweetness Sects

Author:Matthew Arnold

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself - as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation - you may hate it or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.”

Source: The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

“Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.”

Hands Reality Class Power Groups Particular Perspective Prisms

Author:Sheila Rowbotham

“the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons, or the facts of science.”

Art Facts Form Fiction Class Reader Activism Impressed Persuasion Essays Sermons

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Where no individual in a community is denied his rights, the mass are the more perfectly protected in theirs; for whenever any class is subject to fraud or injustice, it shows that the spirit of tyranny is at work, and no one can tell where or how or when the infection will spread.”

Shows Spirit Individual Community Class Rights Subjects Mass Injustice Spread Tyranny Fraud Denied Protected Infection

Book:The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866

Source: The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: In the school of anti-slavery, 1840 to 1866

“You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?”

Lasts Nations Interest Class Election Moses Self-importance

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of the fatherland. We have never been involved in a decision to annex the territory of a neighboring country, or to fight for foreign markets on distant shores. These are the games men play, not us. We want to be neither oppressors nor oppressed. The women's revolution is the final revolution of them all.”

Men Want War Country Play Fighting Games Names Decision Class Groups Revolution Involved Finals Shore Territory Oppressed Conquest Oppressors Fatherland

Author:Susan Brownmiller

“We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.”

Country Wealth Class Rich Nice Comforting Deserving Nice Things New Class

Book:The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary

Source: The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary

“No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.”

Mean Ideas Hands Government Class Safe Republic

Author:Wendell Phillips

“To every class we have a school assign'd, Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind: Yet one there is, that small regard to rule Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school; That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, And awes some thirty infants as she knits; Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay Some trifling price for freedom through the day. At this good matron's hut the children meet, Who thus becomes the mother of the street.”

Mind Children Stills School Mother Poor Pay Class Study Wife Streets Regard Patient Busy Humble Thirty Awe Infant Deaf Widows Trifling Huts

Book:The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author

“To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.”

Language Sides Term Class Middle Policy Safe Comfortable Tasks Middle Class Middle Of The Road

Author:Christian Morgenstern

“He may not be in a class all by himself, but it don't take long to call the roll.”

May Long Class Nfl

Author:Bum Phillips

“When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.”

Play Kids Class Football Nfl

Author:Joe Paterno

“There's no class to manage people. There's no class to teach on how to handle millions. There's no class to teach us how to manage time.”

People Class Teach Millions Handle Manage Nfl

Author:Deion Sanders

“The Yankees, you see, they're a money team, they're the class of baseball. You don't ever bet against that.”

Class Team Baseball Nfl Yankees

Author:Jim Thorpe

“God has really blessed me with the ability to put me ahead of the class.”

Ability Class Blessed Nfl

Author:LaDainian Tomlinson

“My dad was a class person on and off the field. That's the person I want to be.”

Want Persons Class Fields Dad My Dad Nfl And Off

Author:Peyton Manning

“I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're talking about here with Seattle. They have a great running back - they have a great group of running backs - but Lynch obviously is really kind of in a class by himself. The quarterback's a problem, the receivers are a problem, they have a good offensive line.”

Thinking Kind Play Problem Running Easy Lines Talking Class One Thing Groups Team Defense Nfl Offensive Quarterback Super Bowl Seattle Receiver Great Running Running Back Offensive Line

Author:Bill Belichick

“It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property.... But if the productive activity of the multitude can be stimulated by the hope of acquiring some property... , it will gradually come to pass that, with the difference between extreme wealth and extreme penury removed, one class will become the neighbor to the other.”

Ifs Wisdom Law Differences Wealth Numbers Class Principles Ought Activity Mass Sacred Property Population Extremes Neighbor Favors Productive Multitudes Private Property

Author:Pope Leo XIII

“The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist in her junior-high class will hear about it and be like, "Oh, cool, I hadn't heard of that, I'm going to check it out."”

Years Together Girl Class Heard Exciting Presses Feminist Checks Hopefully Labels Juniors Junior High Exciting Things High Class

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a lovely pastime for the middle class to think of itself as the whole nation.”

Thinking Writing Littles Whole Language Nations Class Middle Lovely Video Indian Middle Class Pastime

Author:Arundhati Roy

“My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.”

Years Firsts Together Class Careers Four Inspired Ballet Four Years Be Inspired Ballet Class

Author:Misty Copeland

“[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.”

People Feels Country Government Running President Class Position Color Keys Police Eritrea

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take a character that you think is wildly different from who you are, and to try to relate to that person and become that person is very helpful. It's hard to articulate what you learn, but you can feel the effect of these characters that you play and take with you.”

Thinking Feels Should Trying Persons Different Hard Play Character Class One Thing Effects Theater Who You Are Relate Helpful

Author:Ryan Gosling

“I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by the horrifically violent atmosphere I grew up in. I am a consequence of violence. That opened a door to many realities that I would not have experienced had I not survived what I did.”

Thinking Reality White Class Violence Doors Middle Grew Grew Up Consequence Violent Atmosphere Middle Class Survived Shattered Early Life Consequences Of Violence

Author:Eve Ensler

“How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?”

“You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]”

Language Class Speech Togas

Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus

“Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company”

World Company Class Makers Thinker Dna Traders World Class

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“The greater part of mankind may be divided into two classes; that of shallow thinkers who fall short of the truth; and that of abstruse thinkers who go beyond it.”

May Two Fall Class Greater Mankind Divided Thinker Shallow

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”

Reality Moving Class Middle Lessons Blue Jazz Middle Class Collectives Halls Concerts Academic Showing Off Starks American Life Continuum Afros Music Lessons

Book:Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979

Source: Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979

“Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.”

Differences Class England Theatre Cease Class Differences

Author:Anthony Burgess

“The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.”

Has Beens Political Politics Interest Party Class Middle Genius Republican Vote Middle Class Political Parties

Author:Patricia Schroeder

“Every strategy for real social change - land reform, education, public health, the equitable distribution of natural resources ... - has been cleverly, cunningly, and consistently scuttled and rendered ineffectual by those castes and that class of people which has a stranglehold on the political process.”

People Has Beens Real Political Social Process Natural Class Land Resources Strategy Reform Consistently Social Change Distribution Natural Resources Public Health Castes Equitable

Book:War Talk

Source: War Talk

“'Twilight' has ruined me. When this is all over, flying internationally is going to be very hard for me. It is just not worth it to buy a first-class ticket, because of the cost.”

Firsts Hard Class Cost Flying Twilight Tickets Worth It Ruined First Class Not Worth It

Author:Ashley Greene

“I don't know why the players make such a big fuss about sitting in the first class section of the plane. Does that mean they'll get there faster?”

Knows Firsts Mean Doe Bigs Class Player Sitting Faster Planes Sections First Class

Author:Sparky Anderson

“Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.”

Ifs Want Play Home Order Games Class Demand Independent Revenge Refuge Domain

Author:Theodor Adorno

“From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.”

Consciousness Steps Class Hatred Class Consciousness

Book:A Poor Wise Man

Source: A Poor Wise Man

“Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.”

Firsts Has Beens Dream America Values House Interest White Class Streets Middle Privilege Administration Middle Class White House Abandoned Denied Mainstream Ignored Scorned Main Street

Author:John F. Kerry

“Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.”

Want Fighting Asks President Class Middle Special Ideals Favors Middle Class Fairness

Author:John F. Kerry

“I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will provide middle class payroll tax relief to get money in the pockets of workers who will spend it, not more tax giveaways for those at the top to stimulate the economy in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. A President who will index the minimum wage to inflation and raise it from a 30 year low, not increase the tax burden on the middle class and those struggling to join it.”

“My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved the world from fascism, came home and built the great American middle class, led the way in the civil rights movement, protected our environment, and created great programs like Medicare.”

“while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.”

Men Writing Class Empty Sexism Categories Masculinity Verbs Nouns

Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“In childbirth, as in other human endeavors, fashions start with the rich, are then adopted by the aspirant middle class with an assist from the ever-watchful media, and may or may not eventually filter down to the poor.”

Humans May Poor Class Rich Middle Media Fashion Middle Class Endeavor Adopted Social Change Childbirth Filters

Author:Jessica Mitford

“For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.”

Men Giving Made Two Country Given Sex Effort Class Generations Groups Vote Fortune Command Secure Other Countries Suffrage

Author:Carrie Chapman Catt

“All communication is more or less cross-cultural. We learn to use language as we grow up, and growing up in different parts of the country, having different ethnic, religious, or class backgrounds, even just being male or female - all result in different ways of talking.”

Source: That's not what I meant!: how conversational style makes or breaks your relations with others

“real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.”

Mean Real Matter Sex Freedom Class Economic Advantage Equality Shifting Disappearance Real Freedom

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.”

Class Middle Boring Dull Middle Class Vulgar Never Fear

Author:Diana Vreeland

“The aristocrat, when he wants to, has very good manners. The Scottish upper classes, in particular, have that shell-shocked look that probably comes from banging their heads on low beams leaping to their feet whenever a woman comes into the room. Aristocrats are also deeply male chauvinist, and ... on the whole they tend to be reactionary.”

Want Looks Whole Rooms Class Feet Particular Lows Males Very Good Manners Good Man Shells Shocked Beam Scottish Reactionaries Good Manners Banging Upper Class Male Chauvinist

Author:Jilly Cooper

“I can assure you that the class system is alive and well and living in people's minds in England.”

People Mind Wells I Can Class Alive England Class System

Author:Jilly Cooper

“The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.”

Way Made Class Teach Rich

Book:1934-1940

Source: 1934-1940

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