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“On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.”

Class Mass Conscious Organization Contrary Organized Working Class Vanguard

Author:Ernest Mandel

“O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”

Giving America Class Taken Mass Luxury Consumerism Overconsumption

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses.”

Political Levels Party Class Duty Mass Average Vanguard

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence. When violence is exercised by the working people, by the mass of exploited against the exploiters -- then we are for it!”

People Ifs Problem Happens Class Struggle Violence Mass Socialism Plates Class Struggle

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.”

Knows Giving Humans Today Fall Class Imagine Economic Theory Mass Capitalism Victim Trade Noble Block Luxury Merit Motive Relative Monopoly Usefulness Economic Theory

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.”

Whole Class Mass Whole Life Labour Capitalist Spares Converting Life Time Spare Time

Book:Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

Source: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production

“I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.”

“The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.”

States Political United Class United States Development Late Mass Organization Working Class Retarded Retard

Author:C. L. R. James

“I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true.”

Said Sometimes Remember House Wish Responsibility Class Media Movement Members Mass Trade Lifts Secretary Working Class Mass Media Operators Broadcasters Printer

Author:Tony Benn

“All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.”

World Political Politics Class Mass

Author:William E. Gladstone

“The education that you give to the upper classes will not uproot idolatry and prejudice, for it is amongst the masses that the error and prejudice will always maintain their power, and while you do not uproot those prejudices from the hearts of the masses, a handful of educated Hindus will never be able successfully to reform the country.”

Giving Heart Country Able Class Mass Prejudice Errors Educated Reform Handful Idolatry Upper Class

Author:Keshub Chandra Sen

“Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.”

“I really love newspapers. They are disposable. They are recyclable. They fall apart so easily. They are not like iPads or Kindles that can't be disposed of and end up on some third-world shore. And I love the heritage of them, the whole history of mass communication. Newspapers changed the world from being a really class based, feudal system to people being able to cheaply get information that informed them.”

“I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate.”

Two Government Law Nations Enjoy Moral Opinion Class Greater Degrees Mass Convinced Former Native Latter Divided Sheep Native American Public Opinion Governing Pretence

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“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

“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

“Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a grovelling dependent class from which to obtain their daily opiate: an hallucinogenic euphoria which comes from the delusion of being superior to and more altruistic than all others. They must have 'the poor, huddled masses' in much the same manner as vampires must have the blood of their victims.”

Want States Poor Class Blood Mass Victim Superiors Vampire Welfare Dependent Delusion Welfare State Euphoria Opiates

Author:Edward Britton

“The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.”

Needs Firsts May Two Class Duty Citizens Mass Foundation Pursuit Grades Divided

Book:Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

Source: Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

“To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.”

Years Sports Class Mass Fairs Compare Cricket

Author:Gagan Narang

“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

“That's how the Germans are.... The aristocrats at the top hard as glass, cold as ice, servants of the King, the working masses willing, pliable, sentimental, susceptible to brutality, the middle class educated and cowardly to the point of servility.”

Hard Class Middle Willing Cold Kings Mass Glasses Educated Ice Servant Middle Class Sentimental Brutality Cowardly Susceptible Servility

Author:Alfred Doblin

“All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.”

Men Three Class Novel Middle Mass Trials Revolutionary Middle Class Bad Man Upper Class Tractors

Book:The beauties and furies

Source: The beauties and furies

“Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it produces new, better, and cheaper goods.... Indeed, with capitalism, the emphasis shifted to producing goods as cheaply as possible for the masses--the working class--whereas artisans had previously produced their goods and wares mostly for the aristocracy. Under capitalism every business wants to cater to the masses, for that is where the money is.”

Want Quality Class Produce Mass Capitalism Goods Working Class Wages Emphasis Quality Of Life Cheaper Aristocracy Artisans

Author:Thomas DiLorenzo

“Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes! Bow, bow, ye tradesmen, bow, ye masses!”

Class Middle Mass Middle Class Bows

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.”

Spiritual Poor Moral Class Rich Mass

Book:Is India Different?: The Class Struggle in India : Correspondence on the Indian Labour Movement and Modern Conditions

Source: Is India Different?: The Class Struggle in India : Correspondence on the Indian Labour Movement and Modern Conditions

“Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.”

Needs Trying Differences Class Mass Equality Former Justify

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the ranks of the middle class because as [ Martin Luther] King said many years ago in a sense they have climbed out of the masses on the shoulders of their sisters and brothers and therefore, they do have some responsibility.”

People Thinking Needs Years Made Said Certain Responsibility Class Middle Brother Kings Mass Years Ago Shoulders Made It Middle Class Brothers And Sisters Luther

Author:Angela Davis

“The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.”

“We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?”

States Wealth United Class United States Rich Land Conditions Demand Mass Labor Raises Property Mere Population Feds Desirable Moderates Decency Competent Manuals Laborers

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“The press of this countrty is now and always has been so thoroughly dominated by the wealthy few of the country that it cannot be depended upon to give the great mass of the people the correct information concerning political, economical, and social subjects which it is necessary that the mass of people shall have, in order that they shall vote and in all ways act in the best way to protect themselves from the brutal force and chicanery of the ruling and employing class.”

People Way Giving Has Beens Country Political Order Force Social Class Subjects Information Protect Mass Vote Presses Best Way Wealthy Brutal Ruling Employing Chicanery

Author:E. W. Scripps

“So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.”

Mean Spiritual Spirit Social Process Known Class Economic Mass Individualism Exploitation Systematic Indoctrination Laissez Faire Trickery

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“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

“Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.”

People Men Needs Mind May Hands Felt Liberty Class Please Mass Repressed Impunity

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“M is for Marx And clashing of classes And movement of masses And massing of asses.”

Class Movement Mass Ass

Author:Cyril Connolly

“The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would have disastrous effects, not just for the rich but for the poor and middle classes themselves. For it is the rich who provide a proportionately greater amount of saving, investment capital, entrepreneurial foresight, and financing of technological innovation that has brought the Unites States to by far the highest standard of living - for the mass of the people - of any country in history.”

“I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Shows Jobs Culture Black Water Class Drug Mass Function Minorities Good Ideas Drug Taking

Author:Terence McKenna

“Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.”

Ifs Real Class Materials Essentials Mass Privilege Ruling Real Power Withholding

Author:George Orwell

“I would speculate that a critical mass of the population has to internalize a middle class outlook first. International aid experience has demonstrated many times that just building railroads doesn't get you there. You need people ready to sue them.”

People Needs Firsts Class Middle Building Ready Mass International Population Critical Aids Middle Class Outlook Railroads Critical Mass

Author:Charles R. Morris

“The literature is like that - they [unions] are constantly talking about the masses, the danger they pose, and how to control them. They understand what they're doing, and they're very class conscious. They press policies which work for their interests.”

Literature Interest Talking Class Danger Policy Mass Conscious Presses Unions

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Who's the big government guy? These labels are nonsense. And the Tea Party, if you want to call them working class, you know, a working-class insurgency from below, they are a mass of contradictions; they don't have a single consistent viewpoint; but part of their impulse is to be wary of government.”

Ifs Knows Want Bigs Government Guy Party Class Mass Labels Tea Impulse Consistent Contradiction Nonsense Working Class Viewpoints Tea Party Big Government Insurgency

Author:Bill Ayers

“Middle-class white children, children of privilege, are afforded the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes and still go on to college, still dream big dreams. But for kids who are born in the ghetto in the era of mass incarceration, the system is designed in such a way that it traps them, often for life.”

Way Children Stills Dream Bigs Kids Opportunity Born White Mistake Class Middle College Goes On Mass Privilege Eras Middle Class Traps Ghetto Incarceration Mass Incarceration

Author:Michelle Alexander

“To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.”

May Country Term Class Fit Degrees Mass Western Population Vehicle Borrowed Dialect Refining Nomenclature Conveying Vernacular

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The trial by jury is a trial by 'the country,' in contradistinction to a trial by the government. The jurors are drawn by lot from the mass of the people, for the very purpose of having all classes of minds and feelings, that prevail among the people at large, represented in the jury.”

People Mind Country Feelings Government Purpose Class Mass Trials Jury Jurors Trial By Jury

Book:The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

Source: The Collected Works of Lysander Spooner: Legal writings

“In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.”

People Whole Water Class Century Mass Structure Productions Revolutionary Urban Spinning Cotton Proletariat 18th Century Jenny Mass Production New Class

Author:A. N. Wilson

“The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.”

People Giving Said Moments Class Struggle Mass Practicals Educated Tragic Links Cowardice Laziness Mishaps Decisive Moments

Book:Damnés de la terre

Source: Damnés de la terre

“I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.”

Source: T2 Trainspotting

“Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew.”

Men Way Age Found Causes Consciousness Class Movement Revolution Succeed Mass Productions Scales Practicals Communist Ruling Alterations

Book:The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

Source: The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document

“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions are generated.”

“The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)

“I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!”

People Way Stills Book Hate Fun Answers Class Grew Grew Up Mass I Hate Police Diets Apologizing Rip Roaring

Book:The Tea Rose: A Novel

Source: The Tea Rose: A Novel