Sally Rooney Quotes

To be concerned about inequality is not engaging in class warfare.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.

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

If there is a class war—and there is—it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones.

A dangerous chasm in the classes is alive and well in the United States of America. Don’t let anybody tell you it’s not.

The rich do not want people who come from poor families to rise to the highest position in the country.

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

I'm just seeing as I grow older, and hopefully wiser, that a lot of things I see from a race perspective are class problems too, so I should be advocating for all.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism, we will continue to be distracted by the spectre of race.

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

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

The messenger matters. When people of modest means complain about inequality, it usually gets written off as class warfare, but when billionaires complain, the problem is redefined.