{"quotes":[{"text":"Belonging to the working class is the economy’s punishment for those who did what they were told to do in class.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["economy","education","employee","employment","punishment","school","working-class"],"id":16076,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Let these men sing out their songs,they've been walking all day long,all their fortune's spent and gone...Silver dollar in the subway station;quarters for the papers for the jobs.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["cocaine","job-hunting","job-seeking","jobless","joblessness","jobs","labor-song","labour","labour-party","labour-song","papers","poverty","quarters","roman-payne","silver-dollar","silver-dollards","subway-stations","subways","want-ads","workers-song","working-class","working-class-blues","working-class-troubles","working-hard","working-song"],"id":52319,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.","author":"Alan Sillitoe","tags":["arthur","life-lessons","reflection","working-class"],"id":53999,"author_id":"Alan+Sillitoe"},{"text":"But the reality is that chav-hate is a lot more than snobbery. It is a class war. It is an expression of the belief that everyone should become middle class and embrace middle-class values and lifestyles, leaving those who don't to be ridiculed and hated. It is about refusing to acknowledge anything of worth in working-class Britain, and systematically ripping it to shreds in newspapers, on TV, on Facebook, and in general conversation. This is what the demonization of the working class means.","author":"Owen Jones","tags":["class","owen-jones","society","working-class"],"id":65940,"author_id":"Owen+Jones"},{"text":"You can work to create a bright future.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["creative-writing","future","future-inspirational","future-plans","future-prediction","future-present","work","work-ethic","work-hard","work-life-balance","working","working-class","working-together","working-with-people","your-destiny","your-journey","your-life"],"id":79833,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.","author":"Joyce Rachelle","tags":["college","college-degree","college-degrees","dreaming","frustrated-artist","frustration","goals","growing-up","ideal","job","jobless","jump","leap-of-faith","practical","profession","professional","starving-artist","what-you-do","who-you-are","work","work","working","working-class"],"id":85247,"author_id":"Joyce+Rachelle"},{"text":"The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.","author":"Núria Añó","tags":["age","ageing","aging","aging-gracefully","economy","getting-older","growing-old","humor","inevitability","irony-of-life","job","jobs","life","living","mathematics","middle-age","nuria-ano","old-age","old-aged","old-people","retired","retiring","work","worker","workers","working-class","works"],"id":101575,"author_id":"N%C3%BAria+A%C3%B1%C3%B3"},{"text":"The 'free' laborer, thanks to the development of capitalistic production, agrees, I.E. Is compelled by social conditions, to sell the whole of his active life, his birthright for a mass of pottage.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["capitalism","communism","labor","liberty","socialism","working-class"],"id":102638,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"Even now when I'm furious, what I would like to do is to punch the infuriating person flat on the ground. That solves nothing I know, and I spent a lot of time understanding my own violence, which is not of the pussycat kind. There are people who could never commit murder; I am not one of those people. It's better to know it, better to know who you are, and what lies in you, and what you could do, might do, under extreme provocation.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["murder","violence","working-class"],"id":105443,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"O.K., so I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? What the hell kind of social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["armchair-intellectuals","exploitation","revolution","working-class"],"id":117763,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}