Best class & white Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.”

White Talking Class Feminism Identity Color Educated Apology Creeds Orientation Educated Women

Author:Christine Pelosi

“Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.”

Years Term White Class Paid Slave Bounds Miserable Servant Wages Laborers

Book:Epochs of American History

Source: Epochs of American History

“The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.”

“Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All literary and artistic works, no matter how great, that document the ambivalence of female sexuality they are trained to dismiss as "misogynous." In other words, their minds are being programmed to secede from their bodies ... there is a huge gap between feminist rhetoric and women's actual sex lives, where feminism is of little help except with a certain stratum of deferential, malleable, white middle-class men.”

“The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are plainly a disreputable crowd; the Republicans, by contrast, are men of standing and sobriety. Many a middle-class American in many a small town has had to explain painfully why he chose to be a Democrat. No middle-class American need feel uneasy as a Republican. Even when he is a minority--for example, among the heathen on a college campus--he can, like any white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, warm himself before his little fire of self-esteem.”

“The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.”

Want Feels Ideas Real Black White Levels Accepting Class Middle Female Vote Organization Democratic Democrat Males Pursue Middle Class Voters Elites Working Class Affluent Tacit

Author:Ellen Willis

“To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.”

Littles Use White Class Middle Affair Indian Middle Class Reservations Upper Middle Class

Author:Mary Brave Bird

“In a manner akin to the influence of Tiger Woods on the other side of the Atlantic, Thierry Henry has helped kick down a few of the remaining bigoted stereotypes. Through his undisputable class and dignity, Henry has made a deep-seated difference to race relations in this country. Racism will flounder whenever white children grow up with a black man as their hero. That so few comment on Henry's colour is a silent tribute to his impact.”

“Black people's music is in a class by itself and always has been. There's nothing like it. The reason for that is because it was not tampered with by white people. It was not on the media. It was not anywhere except where black people were. And it is one of the art forms in which black people decided what is good in it. Nobody told them. What surfaced and what floated to the top, were the giants and the best.”

People Has Beens Art Reason Form Black White Class Media Music Is Decided Giants Black People

Author:Toni Morrison

“Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.”

Needs Country White Wonder Class Middle Structure Males Congress Middle Class Middle Aged Unresponsive

Author:Bella Abzug

“In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.”

Process Wealth White Class Poverty Middle Grew Higher Shadow Dear Clouds Rising Middle Class Broads Valleys Perpetual Holding On Rising Up Ledges Dear Life

Book:Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation

Source: Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation

“in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.”

Kind Culture Social White Class Taken Groups Middle Middle Class Mainstream Norm Social Norms Bland Deviation

Book:FEAR OF FALLING

Source: FEAR OF FALLING

“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

“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

“If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by starting MX missile deployment, then the Soviet Union will respond by deploying a new intercontinental ballistic missile of the same class, with its characteristics in no way inferior to those of the MX.”

People Ifs Way Running House Challenges White Common Class Unions Starting Common Sense Characteristics White House Soviet Inferiors Soviet Union Missiles Deployment Gauntlet Deploying

Author:Dmitriy Ustinov

“I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works, will keep on working, because the vast majority of women will never be thin. Thin enough. How well the hope of class mobility keeps every mother dieting, and handing the diets down to her daughter, hoping the daughter may do even better. When you combine this with the fact that many non-white peoples tend to be heavier than white folks, dieting becomes a tool not only in enforcing class but in encouraging assimilation.”

Wells May Mean Enough Facts Mother Women White Class Rich Daughter Tools Weight Majority Folks Diets Flash Assimilation Dieting Mobility

Author:Elana Dykewomon

“If you put on a lousy production with white actors, it's lousy. There is a problem, or can be, at this stage of our social evolution, with mixing the casts. It may not be a question of race so much as class. You would rarely find a black man in a high executive position where he was swinging his weight around.”

Ifs Men May Problem Actors Social Black White Race Class Stage Position Evolution Weight Casts Productions Executives Mixing

Author:Howard Schultz

“what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.”

Has Beens White Class Middle Code Middle Class

Author:Dale Spender

“Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male.”

“To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward to escape from Jamaica's black mass.”

Giving Firsts Black White Class Mass Consequence Discrimination Posterity First Class Frantic Jamaica Stampede

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.”

Ifs Knows Want Has Beens Care Mother Black White Poor Class Middle Balls Constitution Agree Don't Care I Don't Care Middle Class Hung Clotheslines

Author:Diamanda Galas

“I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.”

Source: Aphorisms and reflections

“There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white working class and the Democrats, I realized that there's even a lot of disagreement about who the working class IS.”

Said White Class Middle Democrat I Realized Middle Class Mutual Working Class Misunderstanding Disagreement Upper Middle Class

Author:Timothy Noah

“I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.”

White Class Skins Lower Class White Skin

Author:George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

“Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected in the practice and policy statements of these predominantly white middle-class groups.”

Ifs White Class Practice Groups Middle Policy Movement Statements Organized Middle Class Diverse Working Class

Author:Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.”

Writing White Party Class Couple Scripts Snow Spares Bugs Screenwriting Snow White Spare Time Kegs

Author:Evan Daugherty

“But for poor black people and working-class black people, it is a much more difficult way to go. The over-incarceration of black people is just intolerable. When you look at the disparity in terms of education and access to fair schooling, it is horrible. If this would happen to white people in this country, it would not be tolerated.”

People Ifs Way Looks Country Happens Difficult Black Term White Poor Class Fairs Access Horrible Black People Working Class Schooling Disparity Incarceration

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. It's happened in the USA between white working class and poor folks on the one hand, and people of color on the other.”

People Hands Turns White Poor Class Happened Color Folks Oppression Usa Target Working Class

Author:Tim Tebow

“I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.”

“The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."”

Firsts Said Facts Black White Class Study Feminism Black Women Bourgeois Reacting

Author:Bell Hooks

“Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.”

Men Young Community White Class Streets Middle Brother Rap Young Man Middle Class Rapper Misogyny White Man Gangsters Identifying Gangster Rap

Author:Angela Davis

“The colors black and white are my uniform, to honor the working class. People like my parents, who were janitors and had to wear a uniform every day. It keeps me grounded.”

People Parent Black White Class Color Honor Black And White Uniforms Working Class Grounded Janitor Color Black

Author:Janelle Monae

“Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.”

“When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight.”

Wells Moving White Class Middle Percent Flight Middle Class Neighborhood Qualified Latino Tipping Tipping Point Upper Middle Class

Author:Richard Benjamin

“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.”

People Facts Faces Fighting Black Water White Poor Talking Class Fire Mass Racism Capitalism Socialism Brown Yellow Solidarity Lower Class

Author:Fred Hampton

“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.”

People Stories White Class Middle Library Triumph Middle Class Norm Suspicious Mislead Great Success Upper Class

Book:Hocus Pocus

Source: Hocus Pocus

“It's very well known that the Republicans have problems with minorities. The Democrats have big problems with white people. Obama only got 39% of the vote. He only got 36% of the working-class white people.”

People Wells Problem Bigs White Known Class Republican Vote Democrat Minorities Working Class Well Known Big Problems

Author:Bill Maher

“Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability.”

Want Whole Home White Pay Class Economic Gender Abortion Agendas Biology Voters Chemistry Working Class Affordability

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.”

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