The working-class is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.
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Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... the working class who fight all the battles, the working class who make the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely shed their blood and furnish their corpses, have never yet had a voice in either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace....They are continually talking about their patriotic duty. It is not their but your patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference. Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into the trenches.
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We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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And on these boats ride the hopes of working class boys dreaming of girls from far away points. And better things, like winter flings and longing after spring has sprung. And they fly North when winter's done, and we get burned in summer's sun.
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What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor daycare, and...
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I once said, We will bury you, and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
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I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
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As the Industrial Workers of the World said in 1905 The Working Class and the Employing Class have nothing in common. I will accept Capitalism when we start counting Social Capital and Environmental Capital.
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I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.
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... in the working class, the process of building a family, of making a living for it, of nurturing and maintaining the individuals in it
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
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I came from a real working-class show business family.
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That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it.
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