James Henry Hammond Quotes

In all social systems there must be a class to do the mean duties... It constitutes the very mudsills of society...Fortunately for the South, she found a race adapted to the purpose...We use them for that purpose and call them slave.

The division of society into estates or castes means in effect that conceptually and organizationally these ‘natural’ forms are established without their economic basis ever becoming conscious

The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

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

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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

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

The ignorance of the working class and the superior intelligence of the privileged class are superstitions fostered by ... universities and churches, and by all the centers of privilege.

the plain fact that throughout the world today organized groups of men by monopoly of economic and physical power, legal enactment and intellectual training are limiting with determination and unflagging zeal the development of other groups; and that the concentration of particularly economic power today puts the majority of mankind into slavery to the rest. But one thing is sure and that is that these ancestors of mine and their descendants have had a common history; have suffered a common disaster and have one long memory.

The South politician preaches to the poor white man, "You got more than the blacks, don't complain. You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain. And the Negro's name Is used, it is plain, For the politician's gain, As he rises to fame And the poor white remains On the caboose of the train; But it ain't him to blame -- He's only a pawn in their game.

One class did not overthrow another; the poor did not supplant the rich. But social relationships—the way people were connected one to another—were changed and decisively so.

The two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black. And all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals.

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

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

I think there's really strong social stratification in South Asia.

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

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

You may be the most liberal, Liberal Englishman, and yet you cannot fail to see the categorical difference between the responsible and the irresponsible classes.

I am accused of creating dukes, barons and knights. But who gave the white man the sole right to create the social order.

There shall not be intermarriage between plebeians and patricians

The lower middle classes as well as the peasants, … always side with the strongest