Shenaz Treasury Quotes

Colour is not the issue in America; class is.

In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no one speaks.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

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.

The rich don’t want the poor to get ahead of them.

I never knew the lower classes had such white skins.

Everybody wants to talk about black and white, when the situation is really about rich people against poor people.

It's not in our nature. Americans have never been a people that drive through a nice neighborhood and say, 'Oh, I hate the people who live in these nice houses.'

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

Class still matters in Britain today.

What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way.

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?

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

And understand: class differences will not save you.

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

Class - or the economic status of individuals - is evident in all societies, some very well stratified by a rigid caste system determined by birth.

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

If there's an enduring theme in my work, it's probably the effects of class on American life.

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

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

If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.

It has often been said, that there is but one rank of men in America… we have no artificial distinctions of men into noblemen and commoners among us, but it ought to be remarked, that superior degrees of industry and capacity, and above all, commerce, have introduced inequality of property among us, and these have introduced natural distinctions of rank in Pennsylvania, as certain and general as the artificial distinctions of men in Europe. This will ever be the case while commerce exists in this country.

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

An imbalance between the rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.