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"You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way."
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"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
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"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."
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"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."
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"And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman."
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"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
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"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."
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"No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner."
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"To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation."
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"If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections."
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"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."
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Explore more quotes by Lena Horne
"I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know."
Learning
"My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman."
Identity
"You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way."
Class
"I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody."
Credit
"I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else."
Hollywood
"I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people."
People
"I remember the day tDr. King died. I wasn't angry at the beginning. It was like something very personal in my life had been touched and finished."
Life
"I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were."
Time
"Malcolm X raised my consciousness about myself and my people and other people more than any person I know. I knew him before he became Malcolm X."
People
"Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me."
Peace
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