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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.
We live in a society where it's cool to be criminal.
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
No one can say, 'I have dropped out - I am no longer in the system.' When you're in prison, you're even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don't transform the system as an absolute thing.
I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
Even if I was in prison, I could be free in my head. I can adapt easily.