Marco Pierre White Quotes

It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies have always been with the struggling mass.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

I was one of the poorest people in America.

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn't that obvious?

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

I myself am from a very poor background; I experienced firsthand poverty in this country, and that is not unrelated to my desire, from the moment I became president, to make a priority of poverty reduction in this country.

The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.

My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

I ain't a Communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

I don't come from money.

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

A poor man is a man who has not got much money. This may seem a simple and unnecessary description, but in the face of a great mass of modern fact and fiction, it seems very necessary indeed; most of our realists and sociologists talk about a poor man as if he were an octopus or an alligator.

The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, no worse, for a people than another.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

These institutions are generally more skilled at getting rich off those living in the lower economic reaches than they are in preparing them for the job market.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

Too many jobs don't pay enough to get by, let alone get ahead.

I come from the lower middle class, originally. We didn't have anything.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.