Zoe Saldana Quotes

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

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

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

We cannot put into the Constitution, owing to existing prejudices and existing institutions, an entire exclusion of all class distinctions.

Labor in white skin cannot be free so long as labor in a black skin is branded.

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

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.

People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip.

If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.

The greatest discrimination in the world now is against poor people.

[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class warfare' - a charge that means it's okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it's not all right to encourage poor people to do so.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

My people are poor and I am one of them.

I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.

Socially, I never belonged to any class, rich or poor. To the rich I was poor, and to the poor I was poor pretending to be like the rich.

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.

Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.