Class Status Quotes:

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people.

- Savielly Tartakower

topic: Class, People, Self Talk, Class Status, Cool Attitude

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

- A. A. Milne

source: "Fictional character: Winnie The Pooh". "Christopher Robin", www.imdb.com. 2018.

topic: Funny, Inspiring, Witty, Nothing Is Impossible, My Attitude

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Quoted in Quotable Calvin Coolidge, ed. Peter Hannaford (2001).

topic: Persistence, Men, World, Unsuccessful, Solved Problems

Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.

- Arthur Hertzberg

topic: Class, Ideas, Going Away, Class Status

The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.

- Glenn Reynolds

topic: Home, College, Class, Class Status, Homeownership

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

- Patrick J. Kennedy

topic: Class, Class Status

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

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Class, Two, People, Probation, Lock Up

Because [Donald Trump] so clearly - through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies - represents people who are not the middle, not the upper middle educated class, there is a fear of seeming to be associated in any way with them, a social fear that lowers the class status of anyone who can be accused of somehow assisting Trump in any way, including any criticism of Hillary Clinton.

- Julian Assange

source: Source: www.zerohedge.com

topic: Class, People, Criticism, Class Status, Assisting

Whether it's social class status or your economic status, it is very evident that the top, if they get their way, will survive and be strong. They will lead those who are helpless, in many ways, to suffer.

- Edwin Hodge

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Strong, Class, Suffering, Class Status, Economic Status

Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.

- Michelle Alexander

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Ghetto, Opportunity, Color, Locked, Class Status

The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Women, Class, Discovery, Class Status

We can't wait any longer for a path to full and equal citizenship. Now, this is where I differ with everybody on the Republican side. Make no mistake, today, not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one. When they talk about legal status that is code for second-class status.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Mistake, Class, Waiting, Class Status

Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

- Bob Hartley

source: Source: www.braddockavenuebooks.com

topic: Book, Class, Grandfather, Class Status

It may not be replicable: One of the hardest transition that a developing country can make is the transition to middle-class status. Governments have to let go, people start insisting on following their own lights, etc.

- Charles R. Morris

source: Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

topic: Letting Go, Country, Light, Class Status

Once they arrive, affirmative action kids are generally left to sink or swim academically. Brown (University) offers plenty of counseling and tutoring to struggling students, but, as any academic Dean will tell you, it's up to the students to seek it out, something that a drowning minority student will seek to avoid at all costs, fearing it will trumpet a second-class status.

- Ron Suskind

topic: Sink Or Swim, Class Status, Brown University

The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their middle-class status. This is the real meaning of saving up to get married. The young couple struggles to set up an image of comfortable life which they will be forced to live up to in the years that follow.

- Germaine Greer

source: Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

topic: Couple, Real, Struggle, Class Status, Comfortable Life

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Fighting, Opportunity, Rights, Class Status, Equal Education

Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.

- Matthieu Ricard

topic: Running, Air, Class, Class Status, Electrical Appliances