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"The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where the relations of monetary exchange were not the priority but one wher the people's needs could be satisfied, and where people would not be worth more according to how much monetary wealth they acquired. Instead their value would be based on their contribution to society as a whole. It would be a society without class that would accept people based on their capabilities and their potential to contribute to that society."

People Class Priorities
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Amartya Sen Economist, Philosopher
Class

"One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect."

School Class Eating Together
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Arthur Miller Playwright, Essayist
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"The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims."

Long Opportunity Class
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Rich Sommer Actor
Class

"My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since."

Class Study Social
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Socrates Philosopher
Class

"Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible."

Cities Class Purpose
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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
Class

"The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting."

Interesting Class Dropping Out
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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Class

"According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already."

Law Class Survival
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Naguib Mahfouz Novelist
Class

"We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were."

Class Pregnancy Egypt
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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Class

"You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead."

Want Firsts Class
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Zora Neale Hurston Novelist, Anthropologist
Class

"I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that matter, any non-Anglo-Saxon peoples within our borders, above the class of unskilled labor."

Class Curiosity African American
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Malcolm X Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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"You have the upper class Negroes who are the modern day Uncle Toms or the 20th century Uncle Toms. They don't wear a handkerchief anymore. They wear top hats. They're called Doctor, they're called - Reverend, but they're still - they play the same role today that Uncle Tom played on the plantation."

Class Doctors Uncles
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Karl Marx Philosopher, Economist
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"...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism."

Simple Class Circles
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Fran Lebowitz Author, Essayist
Class

"Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money."

Class Middle Unlimited
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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
Class

"The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do."

Class Tendencies Wipe
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Henry Adams Historian
Class

"As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore."

America Class Boredom
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Henry George Economist, Journalist
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"Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground."

Class Land Progress
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Paul Johnson Journalist, Author
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"Bismarck had cunningly taught the parties not to aim at national appeal but to represent interests. They remained class or sectional pressure-groups under the Republic. This was fatal, for it made the party system, and with it democratic parliamentarianism, seem a divisive rather than a unifying factor. Worse: it meant the parties never produced a leader who appealed beyond the narrow limits of his own following."

Party Class Pressure Groups
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