William Pitt Fessenden Quotes

To abolish class distinctions means abolishing a part of yourself.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.

I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

There is no caste in blood.

If one race be inferior to the other socially, the Constitution of the United States cannot put them on the same plane.

I never knew the lower classes had such white skins.

That certain groups do much better in America than others—as measured by income, occupational status, test scores and so on – is difficult to talk about.

If everyone simply ignores the caste system, it will go away overnight.

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

What I see happening to this country is a neo-caste system.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

Class still matters in Britain today.

I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why everybody couldn't be equally prosperous.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.