Top 38 Quotes About Classism
#1. As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.
Immortal Technique
#2. Immigration has defined my entire life. My parents left Mozambique with nothing but their wits in search of a better life for their kids. They moved to England in the 1970s, saw the classism there, and left for America soon after.
Jose Ferreira
#3. All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was not ever thus. And it's not going to be this way, come the revolution!
Clara Fraser
#4. Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism, racism and classism exist and interconnect, and that they should be consistently challenged.
Jessica Valenti
#5. I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.
Kathleen Hanna
#6. Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.
Ruby Dee
#7. I think the clearest manifestation for anyone who doubts that racism and classism exist in America, all one need do is take a real serious objective look at our criminal justice system.
Tim McDonald
#8. Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say.
Kathleen Hanna
#9. Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.
Kathleen Hanna
#10. Controlling women as the means of reproduction is made even more necessary by any race or caste or class system. It just comes together, it's just like life. And therefore it's not even practical to be a feminist without being anti-racist or against classism. It just doesn't work.
Gloria Steinem
#11. The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It operated from the inside through self-hate and self-doubt, and from the outside through the police, carnivorous landlords, and the welfare system.
Junius Williams
#12. The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.
Beau Willimon
#13. Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.
Octavia E. Butler
#15. Already he was realizing that he would be more ashamed of her in the city than he was here. Then, quite suddenly, he was not ashamed of her, but of himself. Deeply ashamed.
Warren Eyster
#16. Yet as a team, we can pull together to do some incredible work.
Randy West
#17. But I complain about the police the way the rich complain; not the way the poor complain.
The difference is everything.
Aravind Adiga
#18. An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would not achieve at that moment without your art. This does not and can not happen by accident.
Glenn Cunningham
#19. The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
George Orwell
#20. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent.
Nelson Mandela
#21. The powerful are self-immunized from even inquiry, let alone punishment for their crimes.
Noam Chomsky
#22. For benefits by their very greatness spotlight the difference in conditions and arouse a secret annoyance in those who profit from them. But the charm of simple good manners is almost irresistible.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#23. There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.
Bell Hooks
#24. If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
Voltaire
#25. Corporations with their political allies are waging an unrelenting class war against working people.
Noam Chomsky
#26. The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.
Juice Newton
#27. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
Ann Coulter
#28. We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
Lydia Maria Francis Child
#29. There were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with great intensity; and those who, having not been loved, learned to thrive on hatred, suspicion, and the meager rewards of revenge.
Dean Koontz
#30. The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they might be related to one another in ways frowned on by the Old Testament.
Sebastian Faulks
#31. I could only think one troubling thought: the police, the state, did the bidding of the holders of great wealth. How much freedom of speech and freedom of assembly you had depended on what class you were in.
Howard Zinn
#32. That the regime was willing to hit itts chief political constituency in the pocket was a clear sign of desperation.
Peter Heather
#33. The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.
Philip K. Dick
#34. Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.
Karen Horney
#35. The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qur'an. It teaches the value and the importance of charity, mercy, and peace.
George W. Bush
#36. Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.
Steven Pinker
#37. As I near the end of my life...
I have determined that
Most of the things I have learned
Will be of little value to me
At the end of my Life".
Stephen Wehunt
#38. Truly it it not the tragedies that destroy us, but the memories of them.
Christopher Pike
