“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.” WhiteTalkingClassFeminismIdentityColorEducatedApologyCreedsOrientationEducated Women Author:Christine Pelosi
“In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.” SelfSocialClassMiddleColorGreenSatisfiedMiddle ClassHierarchy Book:Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular
“I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do.” KindArtKidsFatherFeltEasyWaterClassColorDrawsDrawingPainterHatedSundayAssignmentsArt Class Author:Wade Guyton
“Las Vegas is perhaps the most color-blind, class-free place in America. As long as your cash or credit line holds out, no one gives a damn about your race, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, address, family lineage, voter registration or even your criminal arrest record. Money is the great leveler.” GivingLongAmericaLinesRaceClassRecordsColorBlindGenderCreditCriminalsDamnAddressesVotersCashVegasLas VegasOrientationLineageRegistrationVoter Registration Author:Marc Cooper
“[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.” PeopleFeelsCountryGovernmentRunningPresidentClassPositionColorKeysPoliceEritrea Author:Nipsey Hussle
“Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.” PeopleClassPrinciplesColorSkins Author:Zoe Saldana
“But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony, and we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever their continent, their class, their color.” KnowsMeanLightFormGivenNationsDarkPoorPowerfulClassRichColorWeakSkinsContinentsColonialismExploitationConsentColonySubjugationDark Skin Author:John F. Kennedy
“Which is more like genocide, I have asked some of my black brothers - this, the way things are, or the conditions I am fighting for in which the full range of family planning services is available to women of all classes and colors, starting with effective contraception and extending to safe, legal terminations of undesired pregnancies at a price they can afford?” WayFightingBlackClassConditionsColorBrotherSafeStartingAvailablePlanningRangePregnancyGenocideExtendingContraceptionFamily PlanningTermination Book:Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition Source: Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition
“Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.” IfsLooksSufferingCommunityPoorClassMiddleColorEnvironmentalMiddle ClassNeighborhoodPollutionFacilityUpper Middle Class Author:Carol Browner
“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.” PeopleHandsTurnsWhitePoorClassHappenedColorFolksOppressionUsaTargetWorking Class Author:Tim Tebow
“If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a large pool of people working at the worst jobs and the lowest paid jobs. Once you have a system like that, then the most likely people to be victims of that are people of color.” PeopleIfsJobsClassEconomicWorstColorPaidVictimPoolLowestUnemployedEconomic SystemsLower Class Author:Howard Zinn
“There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.” IfsThinkingYearsCountryEnoughSchoolAmericaActorsClassColorSpringBrilliantGraduatesYaleNyu Author:Andre Holland
“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.” PeopleParentBlackWhiteClassColorHonorBlack And WhiteUniformsWorking ClassGroundedJanitorColor Black Author:Janelle Monae
“We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.” IfsFeelingsLevelsRaceClassColorFellowsSticksEsteemTriumphMutualCreedsVentureCan NotFeathersCapsFellow FeelingRace And Color Author:Ameen Rihani
“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.” PersonsLongMadeTwoRealityPoliticalReligiousWhiteClassFrontsColorTvsRepublicanConservativeEducatedFilmmakerGlobal WarmingObscureBackwardsRedneckReactionariesTokensUneducatedIdeologues Author:Frank Schaeffer
“As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people aren't taking that class, but they don't show up that often and they're auditing it.” PeoplePersonsShowsWhiteLevelsClassColorRacismSeminarsPhds Author:W. Kamau Bell
“Eliminate the concept of division by class, skills, race, income, and nationality. We are all equals with a common pulse to survive. Every human requires food and water. Every human has a dream and desire to be happy. Every human responds to love, suffering and pain. Every human bleeds the same color and occupies the same world. Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.” WorldHumansDreamPainDesireSufferingWaterCommonRaceClassColorSkillsConceptsIncomeDivisionCitizenshipPulseNationalitySuffering And Pain Author:Suzy Kassem
“The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that I loved the poetry of broken English. Broken English and vernacular. It just floored me that you can actually capture the way people really talked. And I also really connected to the social class element.” PeopleWayBookLanguageSocialDealsClassColorBrokenElementsIncrediblesConnectedCapturePurpleSocial ClassVernacularBroken English Author:Matt de la Pena
“I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.” IdeasMatterNextWhiteClassTeachDoorsMiddleColorSkinsUniversityExpectedChosenMiddle ClassNeighborhoodPeculiarEmbarrassingSonnetRenaissanceEthnicityYaleSkin ColorYale University Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I make time to exercise at least four times a week. I mix up running, yoga, barre classes, and rock-climbing to get a full workout. I also follow my mum and dad's nutritional advice and eat a variety of colors on my plate. Plenty of fruit and vegetables.” RunningClassFourWeekAdviceRocksColorDadExerciseYogaFruitPlentyVarietyClimbingVegetablesMumPlatesWorkoutMaking TimeRock ClimbingFruits And VegetablesMum And Dad Author:Rose McIver
“Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.” ThinkingWantWellsKindClassIssuesNiceImagineColorTreatsHarderShameConnectedServantParisHotelStayingMexicoMexicanMexican American Author:Sandra Cisneros
“Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.” AgeLawOpportunityParentBornCommunityBehindsClassPolicyYouthColorStructureBarsPermanentGuaranteesLockedTrappedCagesGhettoGuarantees ThatClass Status Author:Michelle Alexander
“Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.” ChildrenHelpingSchoolClassColorSucceedDeserveBackgroundsNeighborhood Author:Rand Paul