"No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal."
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"The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return."
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"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."
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"Without the presence of class warfare, trade unions would be hard put to justfy their existence."
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"The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave."
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"Money can't buy happiness, but it will certainly get you a better class of memories."
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"The only excuse for not coming to a class or a performance is death."
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"All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity."
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"Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest."
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"Congress: America's only true criminal class."
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"The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat."
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"What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us."
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"The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever."
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"Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is."
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"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."
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"The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them."
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"In a political struggle of class against class, organization of trade unions is the most important weapon."
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"A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity."
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"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."
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"Only when the kulak refused to deliver grain to the State did [Joseph] Stalin, under the pressure of the Left Opposition, accomplish a sharp turn. Being the empiricist that he is, he moved, to the opposite extreme, and set as a task for two or three years the collectivization of all the peasantry, the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, and the compression of the Five Year Plan into four years."
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