Darryl Pinckney Quotes

Is the great working class oppressed? Yes, undoubtedly it is. God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

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

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

My job is to raise issues relating to class in Ireland.

'High Cotton' is more conscious of class than 'Black Deutschland.'

I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

I've always enjoyed studying the small clues that indicate a particular class level.

Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: 'Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.'

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

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.

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false, in the last analysis they rest on force.

The middle class is always a firm champion of equality when it concerns a class above it; but it is its inveterate foe when it concerns elevating a class below it.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Keep up the middle class; lop off aristocracy on the one hand, and a rabble at the other; let the middle class ... have the power.

I'm not interested in classes ... Far be it from me to foster inferiority complexes among the workers by trying to make them think they belong to some special class.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.