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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Class

"Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end."

Country Evil Class
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Class

"We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow."

Men Years Class
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Class

"The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes."

Class Slavery Traders
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
Class

"Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence."

Fall Class Work
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Edgerrin James Football Player
Class

"I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'"

Class Airports Tourists
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Elbert Hubbard Writer, Publisher
Class

"There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement."

Lying Class Encouragement
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Elizabeth Warren Politician, Lawyer
Class

"I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody."

Country Class Warfare
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Ellen DeGeneres Comedian, Television Host
Class

"The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself."

Careers Class Attention
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Ellen Willis Writer, Activist
Class

"The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue."

Real Class Organization
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Class

"Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them."

Two Dog Class
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
Class

"The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies."

America Class Pregnancy
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
Class

"The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements"

Ideas Political Class
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
Class

"So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'."

Mean Spiritual Class
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
Class

"More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority."

Class Majority Dictator
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Emma Stone Actress
Class

"There's so much I'm interested in that I didn't discover in high school. For 'The Amazing Spider-Man', because Gwen is a scientist, we went to a lab in San Diego, and we were learning about biology. And I'm fascinated! Because I never went to biology class in high school."

Men School Class
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Emma Watson Actress, Activist
Class

"Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I'm always convinced that the reason that I didn't take as many politics or history classes is because I just didn't see any women. I didn't think when I was 13, 14 that that had anything to do with me. I just didn't see women in my textbooks."

Thinking Class Textbooks
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
Class

"None of us should be ashamed to speak of our class power or lack of it. Overcoming fear, even the fear of being immodest, and acting courageously to bring issues of class- especially radical standpoints – into the discourse of blackness is a gesture of militant defiance, one that runs counter to bourgeois insistence that we think of “money” in particular and class in general as private matters."

Thinking Running Class
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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
Class

"Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously."

Taken Class African American
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