Class Quotes

As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so - we believe - there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.

We have not taken and we shall not take a single backward step. There must be no second class citizens in this country.

The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies.

Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the "whoso-ever will, let him come" doctrine, and is in danger of becoming little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.

If America is to remain a first-class nation, it cannot have second-class citizens.

Those who dealt in guineas were not usually of the impoverished class.

I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good hideout.

I'm one of the people that's managed to rise above my class, that's the working- class dream, the whole Lennon-esque, John Osborne kind of thing, you know - jump out - if you get the opportunity to better yourself that's fantastic, and I've done it.

There should be a class on sex education, a real sex-education class. There should be a class on police brutality. There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry. But there are not. There are classes on gym. Physical education. Let's learn volleyball.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained.

Nothing can be more hopeless than to attempt to explain this similarity of pattern in members of the same class, by utility or by the doctrine of final causes.

Embryology will reveal to us the structure, in some degree obscured, of the prototypes of each great class.

Man could no longer be regarded as the Lord of Creation, a being apart from the rest of nature. He was merely the representative of one among many Families of the order Primates in the class Mammalia.

Many eloquent men fail utterly; and they are not, as a class, generally successful.

Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.

I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil