You don’t stand with the working class when you try to throw 32 million people off of health insurance. You don’t stand with the working class of this country when 83% of the tax benefits that you push for, that you succeeded in getting, go to the top 1% at the end of 10 years. You’re not standing w…
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What could the political effects be of a media that actually served working-class Americans?
Look, I’m one of these crazy guys that’s on a mission here to try to at least provide a workingman’s perspective. One of the reasons I came on this program is because most of your audience are working people. And they’re getting hosed. They’re getting hosed. It’s not for the fat cats. It’s not for r…
There’s no one left to see his hands lifting from the engine bay, dark and gnarled as roots dripping river mud, no one to see how his palms — slabs of callus from scouring the long throats of chimneys, hauling mortar and brick — move in the fabricated light. Thumb-knuckle thick and white as a grub w…
The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party that fights for the working class, and that's exactly what I do. I will stand with unions wholeheartedly, and that's the problem—the Democratic Party wants to say that, but their actions do not mirror that.
Had the president not come down here and stuck his nose into this race, I would be the winner. I will tell you right now. I’m not scared of the president of the United States. And I’m not scared to stand up against the president of the United States. We’re going to sit and think about what the way a…
Look, Schumer and Waters and Pelosi, they are not in line with what the Democratic Party is supposed to be. The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party that looks out for the working-class citizens. That's what they do. We don't have that today. They're the party that believes that we got to ta…
My mother's mother worked at a ball-bearing plant. She was a steelworker at a time when it wasn't common to see a woman in that position. Eventually she became a union leader and an activist, trying to stop drugs in her community. (She and her family were pushed out of their neighborhood by drug dea…
I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
People yearn for a 'politics of the center' —not 'the center' so widely discussed by politicians and pundits in Washington but rather a politics that speaks to the center of people's lives: affordable child care, good education for children, health security, living-wage jobs that will support famili…
Everything was disparaged—the nation, because it was held to be an invention of the 'capitalist' class (how often I had to listen to that phrase!); the Fatherland, because it was held to be an instrument in the hands of the bourgeoisie for the exploitation of' the working masses; the authority of th…
When you have paid a hundred and thirty pounds bride-price and you are only a second-class clerk, you find you haven’t got any more to spare on other women.
I’m a worker, a guy meant to do a physical job. That’s what my dad did. That’s what my grandfather did. It’s the type of work I’d be doing if there were no such thing as acting.
I spent thirty-three years as another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went. I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is that you yourself really want out of life.
My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor. What we were doing in those days were stolen pharmaceuticals. Though you could be tempted with heroin, I wasn't. And it was mainly heroin then, there w…
I’ve had a rotten day, and I'm in a foul mood. A fat woman came into the shoe store today and said that she was a size five. I shoved her hoof into a shoe, my thumb got stuck in the back of the shoe. She panicked, reared up, and galloped around the store, dragging me on the floor behind her. Thank G…
I represent a certain part of America that probably nobody else represents.
[W]orking men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur wit…
Minimum wage? Just a fancy term for industrialized slavery.
Either place yourself at the mercy of capital, eke out a wretched existence as of old and sink lower and lower, or adopt a new weapon—this is the alternative imperialism puts before the vast masses of the proletariat. Imperialism brings the working class to revolution.