The enemy are no match for us in a fair fight.... The young men ... of the upper class are kind-hearted, good-natured fellows, who... are unfit as possible for the business they are in. They have courage but no endurance, enterprise, or energy. The lower class are cowardly, cunning, and lazy. The height of their ambition is to shoot a Yankee from some place of safety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As our actual present world ... shows itself more clearly--our world of an aristocracy materialised and null, a middle-class purbl...ind and hideous, a lower class crude and brutal--we shall turn our eyes again, and to more purpose, upon this passionate and dauntless soldier of a forlorn hope.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am... not free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As this world is at present constituted, what we call the lower part of mankind work for pay, and by that means support themselves... and families; yet their assistance by the means of their labor is as necessary to the rich as the pay of the rich is to the laboring man. Did not this dependency for common subsistence oblige the lower class of men to sell their labor, if the gentleman whose birth and fortune had enabled him to have had a literate education was to despise his cook for his ignorance, the cook in my opinion would then have a very reasonable pretense for withdrawing his labor and forcing the learned insulter to employ some of that time in preparing food for his body which he (by the help of his cook) hath now leisure to employ in pampering the pride of his heart by first acquiring and then applauding his own acquired learning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor ...daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner's job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, externa...l institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now your beer belly hangs outlike Fatso. You are popping your buttons and expelling gas.... How can I lie down with you, my comical beau when you are so middle-aged and lower-class.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though of erect nature, man is far above the plants. For man's superior part, his head, is turned toward the superior part of the ...world, and his inferior part is turned toward the inferior world; and therefore he is perfectly disposed as to the general situation of his body. Plants have the superior part turned towards the lower world, since their roots correspond to the mouth, and their inferior parts towards the upper world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »