Top 24 Working Class America Quotes
#1. It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.
Robert Charles Wilson
#2. Nixon finding areas of agreement with his Democratic adviser, as when Pat writes to him, "I do not know, but strongly suspect, that especially to working-class America, the misbehavior of [college] students is seen as a form of class privilege. Which it is.
Stephen Hess
#3. I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.
Geoff Dyer
#5. In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.
Martin Amis
#6. We drove past a small church, and the congregation had abandoned the building to stand outside in a circle with their heads bowed, maybe hoping their prayers would get a better signal on the lawn.
Heaven has notoriously bad reception.
Atom Yang
#7. It's as if they'd heard that there are values one is supposed to honor and this is what one does to honor them
so they went through the motions, like ghosts pulled by some sort of distant echoes from a better age.
Ayn Rand
#8. The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief ... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.
Emma Goldman
#9. Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.
Ellen Tauscher
#10. I love seeing America vote, through the prism of my older working class neighborhood in Riverside, California.
Susan Straight
#11. The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and not raise taxes on the working middle class is by raising taxes on the super rich.
Robert Reich
#13. If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.
Ellen Tauscher
#14. When ... asked what I am writing, I have answered, "A book about social class in America," ... It is if I had said, "I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.
Paul Fussell
#15. If you go to working class, and working poor areas of America, the food sources that are relegated to them are generally limited to unhealthy ones.
Anthony Bourdain
#16. Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.
Frederick Lenz
#17. Dreams, the veins of the universe.
Gwen Calvo
#18. Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.
Garrison Keillor
#19. Legendary rock musician. Poet laureate of the working class. Voice of America's conscience.
Harrison Howe
#20. Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
Barbara Mikulski
#22. For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
John Sweeney
#23. America's indispensable working class existed as property beyond the realm of politics, leaving white Americans free to trumpet their love of freedom and democratic values.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#24. Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.
Steny Hoyer
