Liz McManus Quotes

Class still matters in Britain today.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

People say law but they mean wealth.

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

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

There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents;... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy.

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

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice.

The Privileged and the People form Two Nations.

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.

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.

Our rich people are not an ethnic minority. A poor person in Tennessee or Arkansas can say, "I'm not wealthy, but maybe my son or my daughter can grow up to be Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton." That's absolutely not true in countries like Zimbabwe, or Burma, or Indonesia, or Bolivia, where the majority of the people look around and they say, "Everybody who's rich belongs to a different ethnic group.

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

In this respect, higher education is now causing most of the growing inequality and strengthening class structure of the United States.

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

Inequality is partly a marker of success.

I think class is still an issue in this country.

I don't think equality is intrinsically valuable, meaning in and of itself. I'm not against inequality... if Bill Gates gets another hundred million dollars, it's no skin off my nose.

Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

And if we don't have a test, what we may end up doing is going back to what this country has done before. We could use social class and we still do, but in the 50s, it was, do you have the right last name and are your parents in privileged positions?