Quotes by Class To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people. Michael Parenti classnumberspeople The US government is usually on the wrong side against the poor and downtrodden, because the wrong side is the right side, given the class interests upon which the [US] policy is fixed. Michael Parenti governmentsidesclass When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing. Michael Moore classlittlesschool I'm from the Midwest, and guys like me don't go on diets. We don't do well on spinning classes. Michael Moore midwestguyclass My mom pushed me to take drama class. Michael Steger momclassdrama Before there were unions, there was no middle class. Michael Moore unionsmiddleclass I love doing demonstrations. I think to be a great chef you have to be a great teacher. I love doing classes with people who love food and enjoy food, bringing them all around one table so to speak. Michael Symon classteacherthinking I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality. Michael Moore criticismclassreality I know some actors feel classes are not cool or they create negative public relations, but I continue to crave the story just beyond my reach. To grasp that brass ring I need to continue to fine-tune my talents. Michael Welch storiesclassneeds We did not adopt socialism out of books, abstractions, humanism, or pity, but rather out of need for the Arab working class is the mover of history in this period. Michel Aflaq classbookneeds Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength. Michael Yates issuesraceclass The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations. Michael Yates issuesraceclass Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class. Michael Yates conservativeyouthclass The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote. Michael Jackson writingclassteacher 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. Michel Foucault teachingclassway I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to write a letter to me about their impressions and what they learned. So, it's incredibly gratifying to hear. Michael Pollan writingclassteacher I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that. Michelle Forbes momclassblood I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh. Michelle Dockery classpeoplepast For reasons that have stunningly little to do with crime or crime rates, we, as a nation, have chosen to lock up more than two million people behind bars. Millions more are on probation or parole, or branded felons for life and thus locked into a permanent second-class status. Michelle Alexander classtwopeople Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must locate the point of activity, the places and forms in which its domination is exercised. And because this domination is not simply the expression in political terms of economic exploitation, it is its instrument and, to a large extent, the condition which makes it possible; the suppression of the one is achieved through the exhaustive discernment of the other. Michel Foucault governmentexpressionclass«139140141142143144145146147148149»
