Quotes by Class The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation. Richard Benjamin atlantaclasspeople There is tremendous long-term harm when Americans accept ethnic and class balkanization as a de facto fixture of American life. I think that impoverishes our understanding of each other. Richard Benjamin classlongthinking When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight. Richard Benjamin whiteclassmoving The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees. Richard Connell huntersclasstwo the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before. Richard Cobden politicalprinciplesclass I've obviously come from a health background. I was a doctor before I became a pollie and one of the things I'd like to do is to really build on the world-class health system we've got. I'm passionate about climate change because it's also a health issue. Things like extreme weather impact on people's health, the ability of our hospitals to cope, the impact on mental health, on farmers in regional areas - they're all serious health concerns. Richard Di Natale issuesclassweather If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like performing. A teacher is an actor, in a way. It takes a great deal to get, and hold, a class. Richard Dreyfuss teachingclassteacher A class, in Java, is where we teach objects how to behave. Richard E. Pattis javalearningclass Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments as the decades went by. They produced the wealth and rising income that resulted in the emergence of a phenomenon completely new to human history: a self-supporting and educated middle class that grew more and more as they lower classes bettered their economic well-being. Richard Ebeling creatingselfclass History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to be pitied, for they know not what they should do. Ralph Waldo Emerson leadershipkingsclass The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon! Ralph Waldo Emerson greatnessskullsclass Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't. Richard Florida creativeclasspeople The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world. Richard Fortey intelligentclassmuseums 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. Richard Florida creativitycreativeclass Over time, this growing tendency of like marrying like will only reinforce clustering and geographic sorting along class lines, giving the emerging map of social, economic, and cultural segregation even greater permanence. Richard Florida mapsclassgiving ... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor. Richard G. Wilkinson life-is-shorthealthclass You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth. Richard Grossman communitylawclass I do everything halfway, Richard Hell adultsdoneclass Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson darknessevilclass To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising. Richard Hofstadter uprisingcriticismclass«165166167168169170171172173174175»
