Economic Class Quotes:

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

- Frederick Douglass

source: Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

topic: Justice, Safe, Poverty, Justice And Mercy, Justice Denied

The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.

- Louis Althusser

topic: Struggle, Class, Technique, Social Division, Economic Class

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

- Richard Louv

source: FaceBook post by Richard Louv from May 23, 2013

topic: Children, Class, Appreciate, Economic Class

Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.

- Pat Schneider

source: Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.206, Oxford University Press

topic: Art, Educational, Writing, Economic Class

We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we strive to see all of these groups united, hand-in-hand, in opposition to the plundering and privileged minority that constitutes the rulers of the State.

- Murray Rothbard

topic: Hands, Class, Minorities, Economic Class

The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes — saving.

- Mark Thornton

topic: Class, People, Saving, Economic Class

Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

- Shulamith Firestone

source: SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

topic: Sex, Class, Differences, Male Privilege, Class Distinction

People, no matter the economic class, find ways to feed their narcissism.

- Lynne Tillman

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Class, People, Matter, Economic Class

Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As long as we only talk about economic classes, profit, salaries, and production, and as long as we believe that real human progress is determined by a particular system of distribution of wealth and goods, then we are not even close to what is essential.

- Julius Evola

topic: Real, Believe, Views, Productions, Economic Class

A day of peace and sharing can lead to greater understanding and cooperation among political parties, faith groups, and people of different races and economic class.

- John Conyers

topic: Peace, Party, Race, Different Races, Economic Class

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

- Dennis Prager

topic: Class, Evil, Poverty, Moral Values, Economic Class

When I go to a great movie, I can live somebody else's life a little bit for a while. I can walk in somebody else's shoes. I can see what it feels like to be a member of a different gender, a different race, a different economic class, to live in a different time, to have a different belief.

- Roger Ebert

topic: Race, Class, Shoes, Different Beliefs, Economic Class