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“I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places where there really are no limitations. As long as you've got drive and hard work and a good idea and you can get out there and do your thing, there's no social classes, so in a lot of countries there's a big history of regardless of how much money you may make, there's still that little thing where you're not in society. That doesn't exist here.”

Knows World May Littles Long Stills Ideas Country Hard States Bigs Social United Class United States Hard Work Limitation Little Things Good Ideas Traveled Appreciative Social Class

Author:Gloria Estefan

“The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements”

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Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“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.”

People Way Book Language Social Deals Class Color Broken Elements Incredibles Connected Capture Purple Social Class Vernacular Broken English

Author:Matt de la Pena

“Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.”

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Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl

“Whether it's social class status or your economic status, it is very evident that the top, if they get their way, will survive and be strong. They will lead those who are helpless, in many ways, to suffer.”

Ifs Way Suffering Strong Social Class Economic Helpless Evident Social Class Class Status Economic Status

Author:Edwin Hodge

“In southern Italy, where my grandparents had lived, there were few opportunities. The society was static, with rigid social classes. Poor people, like my grandparents, had little chance to improve their lives, no matter their talents or willingness to work.”

People Littles Matter Opportunity Social Chance Poor Class Talent Willingness Southern Grandparent Poor People Static Social Class Southern Italy

Author:Samuel Alito

“Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.”

People Wells Mean Matter Hate Social Class Hell Franklin Stylish Upper Class Social Class Hate Him

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.”

Has Beens Matter Social White Class Trash Social Class Ku Klux Klan White Trash

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.”

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Author:Michel Foucault

“I can understand how people would despise my image and my father's persona. My father's image amongst the poorest of people, those forgotten by the state, still remains a respected image. Whether we like it or not, my father was an important figure who filled a vacuum left by the state amongst the lower social classes.”

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Author:Juan Pablo Escobar

“We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.”

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Author:Naguib Mahfouz

“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.”

“Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught me to organise my thoughts, to do research, to read and listen, to seek alternatives, to resolve old problems with new solutions, to argue logically. Above all, she taught me not to believe anything blindly, to doubt, and to question even what seemed irrefutably true, such as man's superiority over woman, or one race or social class over another.”

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Author:Isabel Allende

“Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any it's social class”

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Author:Adolf Hitler

“The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.”

“...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or declining, how they are distributed as between different ages, sexes, and different social classes and racial and ethnic groups, and again, which way these numbers are moving.”

People Way Important Different Government Age Moving Social Sex Numbers Class Growing Groups Immigration Social Class Ethnic Groups Different Ages

Author:Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.”

“The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.”

Lasts Culture Force Social Justice Class Diversity Social Justice Analysis Distinction Separating Social Class Sticks And Stones Class Distinction

Book:Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

Source: Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb

“When the ability to have movement across social class becomes virtually impossible, I think it is the beginning of the end of a country. And because education is so critical to success in this country, if we don't figure out a way to create greater mobility across social class, I do think it will be the beginning of the end.”

Ifs Thinking Way Ends Country Success Science Social Ability Education Class Greater Impossible Figures Movement Critical Mobility Social Class

Author:Shirley M. Tilghman

“This movie came as a reaction to reality. I realized that I do not know that 80 of the population that lives poor in my city. I wanted to make a social experiment putting in the same car several people from different social classes, just to see what would happen.”

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Author:Jonathan Jakubowicz

“There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect the trends of economic developments. In communal society, where there are virtually no class divisions, man's productive activities on outlook and culture is less discernible. Account must be taken of the psychology of conflicting classes.”

“When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own.”

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Author:Oscar Romero

“Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.”

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Book:The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

Source: The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded

“We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.”

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Author:Angela Carter

“There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.”

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Book:Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

Source: Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior

“The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.”

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Author:James S. Coleman

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

“A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.”

“By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labor. By proletariat, the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor power in order to live.”

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Book:The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx

Source: The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx

“It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not between states nor between social classes nor between political parties, but right through every human heart, through all human hearts. And that is why I turn back to the years of my imprisonment and say, sometimes to the astonishment of those about me, bless you, prison, for having been a part of my life.”

“From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.”

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Author:David Lindsay-Abaire

“Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout.”

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Author:Learned Hand

“In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.”

People Want Social Class Cutting Succeed Europe Australia Tall Syndromes Social Class Poppies

Author:Mark Burnett

“Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.”

Men Social Sports Class Heritage Social Class

Author:Pierre de Coubertin

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