Ashley Jensen Quotes

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

I think class is still an issue in this country.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

I went off to a school with the children of CEOs and diplomats. To be able to be at home with that group of people and at home with the desperately poor has been good for me in preparation for my coming to Washington.

You're either ghetto or you're not.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

There are only two classes - first class and no class.

Nobody's got it made. Nobody, no matter what they look like.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

Society is composed of two great classes-those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

You can have class in the ghetto and trash in the White House.

We are still a nation deeply divided by race and class.

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

Class warfare is being waged in America, and the wrong side is winning.

I take much of the attacks and the criticism toward me as being very class-based, but as Americans we don't like to acknowledge that reality.

At school, when everyone would sell sweets and chocolate, I'd always take it that step further. I'd hustle as hard as I could to get the new Air Forces, to go and chill with the posh kids and the white girls who were around my area.

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

I always put people with my kind of background first.