Class System – Quotes

The United States, which

The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum for emotional orphans. For over three hundred years, refugees from political oppression, religious persecution, famine, poverty, and a rigid class system which limited educational and economic opportunities have been leaving their native villages … Read more

And it is clear

And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization … Read more

Mr. Jones\’s book is

Mr. Jones’s book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: ‘How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?’ His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage. Dwight Garner

There is a class

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors. Debra Wilson

The essence of a

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations. Clive James

An old joke has

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he’s working on these days. ‘My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.’ ‘Oh really, that’s interesting: one didn’t think there was a class system in the United States.’ ‘Nobody does. That’s … Read more

Americans sometimes say to

Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can’t buy it. You can’t buy class. Anne Perry

A first class system

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society. Andy Hargreaves

Educational enterprises do not

Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
A. J. Muste