Class Difference Quotes

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.

Frankly that's what makes such a big difference between President Obama on one hand and Mitt Romney on the other. Gov. Romney has not walked in those shoes of the ordinary Americans and frankly I don't think he has the capacity to quite understand the struggle that the 98 percent of Americans go through every single day.

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

I didn't believe one man should have so much services and another man should have none.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

I'd read an enormous amount but had spent so much time in my own head that I didn't have extensive social skills. Suddenly I was in this world where I was surrounded by these incredibly polished and wealthy kids who had gone to prep schools, and I felt daunted by them. I don't think people were aware of how full of anxiety I was... For a long time I felt like I was living in a place where I shouldn't have been.

Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.

In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were there. But they couldn't understand why some pop star from London would want to be there.

While we recognize … the class origins of political parties we do not reduce every difference between parties to a class difference.

Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in a car drive by, or you're in the city of Lahore going to a restaurant and seeing somebody with a security entourage coming in... you're exposed to people with more.

If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how do you deal with the fact that the women who clean your houses and tend your children while you attend conferences on feminist theory are, for the most part, poor women and women of Color? What is the theory behind racist feminism?

The wealth disparity between the lowest and the highest continues to expand, and that's inappropriate.

In our great cities there is plainly in evidence much wealth contrasted with much poverty and some of the wealth has been acquired or is used in a manner for which there is no moral justification.

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

These poor rich men, we anglers pity them perfectly.

To live like a poor man is only fun when you are rich.

Everything the working class has been told to do, the rich do not do. That is my message.

One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.

From the day I was born, there has always existed a huge disconnect between the stories often told by the elite and those I hear from ordinary people about our country although we live in the places; and witness the same events around us.

It's very easy to relate to a kid who is having trouble in high school... less so to relate to a billionaire whose Lamborghini broke down.

I've always been less interested in the person on the top of the Bellagio than I am at the person whose house got moved to create the Bellagio.

That difference between the rich and poor is growing every month.