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  • In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.

    Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.275, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

    "David Frum Bashes Fox News Viewers: End Up 'Knowing A Lot Less About Important World Events'". CNN Interview, www.newsbusters.org. December 12, 2011.
  • The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

    Years   Data   Childhood  
    "An Atlas of Upward Mobility Shows Paths Out of Poverty" by David Leonhardt, Amanda Cox and Claire Cain Miller, www.nytimes.com. May 4, 2015.
  • America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex.

    Sex   America   Mobility  
  • Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

    Men   Rights   Giving  
  • We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

    "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.
  • A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

    Strong   Justice   Effort  
  • If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

    "Pre-School Is Where Upward Mobility Begins" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.
  • I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.

    Military   War   Father  
    Interview with Sasha Abramsky, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 16, 1997.
  • The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.

    "Pre-School Is Where Upward Mobility Begins" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.
  • The way of Jesus is radically different. It is the way not of upward mobility but of downward mobility. It is going to the bottom, staying behind the sets and choosing the last place! Why is the way of Jesus worth choosing? Because it is the way to the Kingdom, the way Jesus took, and the way that brings everlasting life.

  • The core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. We want equal opportunity, not equality of outcome. We want to make sure that there's upward mobility again, in our society and in our economy.

    "Inequality for All". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. September 20, 2013.
  • But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

    Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

    Feet   People   Safety  
  • In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.

    Peter L. Berger (1988). “The capitalist revolution: fifty propositions about prosperity, equality, and liberty”
  • Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.

    Jobs   Views   Growth  
  • Let there be no mistake, Sen Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, how to reduce inequality, increase upward mobility, has been very good for the Democratic Party and for America.

    Mistake   Party   America  
    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home. It doesn't matter if they're male or female.

    Dream   Home   Numbers  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.

    "At Least Somebody Is Talking About Poverty Again" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 25, 2012.
  • To ensure assimilation we want to ensure that it works. Assimilation, an important word. Integration and upward mobility.

    Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.
  • The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience.

    Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1993). “Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry”
  • There is a myth that the purpose of education is to give one the means for upward mobility and success. The plain truth is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does need desperately more peacemakers, healers, restorers, story tellers, and lovers of every shape and form.

  • The American Dream is individualistic. Martin Luther King's dream was collective. The American Dream says, "I can engage in upward mobility and live the good life." King's dream was fundamentally Christian. His commitment to radical love had everything to do with his commitment to Jesus of Nazareth, and his dream had everything to do with community, with a "we" consciousness that included poor and working people around the world, not just black people.

    Christian   Dream   Jesus  
    Source: www.chicagotribune.com
  • One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor by Indian benchmarks. ... True, a few residents trapped rats and frogs and fried them for dinner. A few ate the scrub grass at the sewage lake edge. And these individuals, miserable souls, thereby made an inestimable contribution to their neighbors. They gave those slum dwellers who didn't fry rats and eat weeds a sense of their upward mobility.

    Weed   Writing   Lakes  
  • Obama does not believe in individual upward mobility. He would penalize it, tax it, regulate it, inveigh against it and disincentivize it. We will be like salmon swimming upstream to mate. We will overcome the currents, the waterfall, the rocks and the predators, and will grapple our way up the stream. Then, at the top of the waterfall will stand Obama the Bear, waiting to scoop us up and have us for dinner. The taxman cometh.

  • We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the majority of the world, that's not the case. In many parts of the world, women and poor people are at a huge disadvantage - certain rights and protections don't exist, and they don't have the chance of upward mobility.

    Country   Rights   Usa  
  • The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

    Dream   Stupid   Dumb  
    "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854
  • The truth is, the liberal policies of the elite class have done little to improve the lot of those who depend so much on them. In America's black communities, where the goodies have been flowing for decades, rather than seeing improvements in terms of upward mobility, we are seeing deteriorating family structure, increases in violent crimes, growing poverty, and growing dependence. Even with such a blatant record of failure, there is slavish devotion to the elite class who continue to promise more goodies in exchange for votes.

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