A Quote by Chris Hayes

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

Chris Hayes

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Chris Hayes
American - Journalist
Born: February 28, 1979

I am as much British, white and working class, my mother's background, as I am black and Nigerian, my father's heritage.

David Olusoga

My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from more of a middle-class background, whose father had prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg.

Chuka Umunna

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

Tom Jones

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

Billie Joe Armstrong

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Nick Cave

Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor. And perhaps they should understand the role of a community organizer is to help people in distress.

Donna Brazile

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

Denise Mina

I am an organizer, not a union leader. A good organizer has to work hard and long. There are no shortcuts. You just keep talking to people, working with them, sharing, exchanging and they come along.

Cesar Chavez

When I think of an activist, I think of a community organizer who is working every day and directly with community members and making it a job to take care of and speak up for a community in some way.

Hunter Schafer

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

Annie Lennox

I come from a very working-class background.

Clive Owen

We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.

Tony Scott

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

Amy Ryan

There is a lot more opportunity now, and I welcome all the conversations we are having about diversity, about women and about class... I come from a very working-class background, and I think the class thing is still probably more tricky.

Sophie Okonedo

I come from a working class background, it wasn't easy for me at all, but I worked hard.

Sol Campbell

We cannot afford to have a president who thinks he's some sort of global community organizer standing over America on one side and our adversaries on the other. America must have a Commander in Chief. Not a global community organizer.

Liz Cheney

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