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1 " Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy. "
― Betty Smith , A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2 " An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives. "
― Christopher Hitchens , Hitch 22: A Memoir
3 " In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It is the second wave of the most important revolution in history. Its aim: the overthrow of the oldest, most rigid class/caste system in existence, the class system based on sex - a system consolidated over thousands of years, lending the archetypal male and female roles and undeserved legitimacy and seeming permanence. "
― Shulamith Firestone , The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution
4 " Poets and painters are outside the class system or rather they constitute a special class of their own like the circus people and the gypsies. "
