Economic Class Quotes

• 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.

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  Shulamith Firestone

  Sex   Class   Differences  

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

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

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  Frederick Douglass

  Ignorance   Justice   Black History  

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

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• 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.

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  Dennis Prager

  Class   Evil   Poverty  

  3004

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

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  Lynne Tillman

  Class   People   Matter  

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  2983

• 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.

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  Richard Louv

  Children   Class   Appreciate  

  FaceBook post by Richard Louv from May 23, 2013

  1950

• 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.

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  Julius Evola

  Real   Believe   Class  

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

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  Pat Schneider

  Art   Educational   Writing  

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

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• 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.

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  Murray Rothbard

  Hands   Class   Groups  

  1891

• 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.

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  John Conyers

  Peace   Party   Race  

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• 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.

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  Louis Althusser

  Struggle   Class   Division Of Labor  

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• 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.

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  Mark Thornton

  Class   People   Saving  

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• 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.

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  Roger Ebert

  Race   Class   Shoes  

  5091

• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

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  Frederick Douglass

  Peace   Patriotic   Ignorance  

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

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