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  • For those parents from lower-class and minority communities[who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.

    School   Class   Agency  
  • First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down to reality, but his people belong to a prosperous middle-class world, on holiday and in holiday mood. Piers Plowman stands alone as a revelation of the ignorance and misery of the lower classes, whose multiplied grievances came to a head in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

  • Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

  • There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

    Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions
  • Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief of some pressing uneasiness, or the attainment of some near advantage.

    Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.206
  • The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

    Class   Wish   Desire  
  • All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't care about remembering what happened to them.

    Class   Amusement   Care  
    Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.200, Simon and Schuster
  • I am not afraid of the priests in the long-run. Scientific method is the white ant which will slowly but surely destroy their fortifications. And the importance of scientific method in modern practical life--always growing and increasing--is the guarantee for the gradual emancipation of the ignorant upper and lower classes, the former of whom especially are the strength of the priests.

    Running   Class   White  
    Thomas Henry Huxley, Henrietta A. Huxley (1908). “Aphorisms and reflections”
  • Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

    Class   Ennui   Constant  
  • Those people that created the cultural Marxist thoughts, one guy by the name of Antonio Gramsci, very important within the Frankfurt School, argued against the concept of Marxist Leninism, in which it was basically the revolutionary spirit where someone would say we need to rile up the lower classes and have a revolution and take over the factories.

    School   Class   Names  
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  • You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.

  • While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

    Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918
  • When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.

    Country   War   Order  
  • Conservatism, being an upper-class characteristic, is decorous; and conversely, innovation, being a lower-class phenomenon, is vulgar. ...Innovation is bad form.

    Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.124, Courier Corporation
  • Most armies are in fact run by their sergeants - the officers are there just to give things a bit of tone and prevent warfare becoming a mere lower-class brawl.

    Running   Army   Class  
    Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Carpet People”, p.148, Random House
  • No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life.

    Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.49, Penguin UK
  • There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

    Class   People   Degrees  
    William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.28, Courier Corporation
  • As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

    Dream   Jobs   Kids  
    "'It's Paula-nick'". Online Q&A, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2004.
  • The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [ Entwerfende ] part, the latter the executive part.

    Thinking   Class   Two  
    "The System of Ethics According to the Principles of the Wissenschaftslehre". Book by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, 1798.
  • I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.

    Government   Law   Class  
    "The Writings of James Madison: 1783-1787".
  • I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.

  • I have never said, as is sometimes believed, or even suggested that lower-class children should not learn the so-called educated norm of the Portuguese language of Brazil. What I have said is that the problems of language always involve ideological questions and, along with them, questions of power.

    Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”
  • I've gradually risen from lower-class background to lower-class foreground.

  • At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

    Artist   Thinking   Class  
  • A broad definition of crime in England is that it is any lower-class activity that is displeasing to the upper class.

  • Your Honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

    Years   Class   Soul  
    Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 14 Sept. 1918
  • This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

    Class   Awful   Excluded  
  • There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

    Women   Class   America  
    Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner
  • When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.

    Mean   Class   Might  
    Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.41, e-artnow
  • Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.

    Sex   Writing   Class  
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