Mobility Quotes - Page 6

• I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

  Harriet Harman

  Educational, People, Generations

  "Clegg Announces Child Poverty and Social Mobility Commission" by Allegra Stratton and Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. April 05, 2011.

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• The social repression and ideological repression of women began with depriving them of education, political decisiveness, mobility and essentially creating sexual slavery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Creating, Political

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• You once liked the blissful mobility, but then you wonder, who's the real you? And who's the chap on the screen? You know, I catch myself acting out my life like a goddamn script.

  Errol Flynn

  Real, Acting, Scripts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Daughter, Strong, Class

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• 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.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Opportunity, Government

  "At Least Somebody Is Talking About Poverty Again" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 25, 2012.

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• Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

  Deborah Tall

  Identity, Individualism, Core

  Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”

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• I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.

  Tara Brach

  Grief, Writing, Disease

  "Where Do We Find Peace and Freedom?". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• 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

  Dream, College, Together

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Opposites, Water, Gold

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.124, Univ of California Press

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• I'm not afraid of terrorism at all. I'm afraid of loss of our freedom, loss of mobility, loss of global comradeship.

  Patti Smith

  Loss, Terrorism, Not Afraid

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• The zooming wealth of the top 1 percent is a problem, but it's not nearly as big a problem as the tens of millions of Americans who have dropped out of high school or college. It's not nearly as big a problem as the 40 percent of children who are born out of wedlock. It's not nearly as big a problem as the nation's stagnant human capital, its stagnant social mobility and the disorganized social fabric for the bottom 50 percent.

  David Brooks

  Education, Children, School

  FaceBook post by David Brooks from Nov 01, 2011

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• We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.

  John Lahr

  Kids, Civilization, Class

  "Can’t Stop the Beat" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to use racism-sexism to prevent universalism from moving too far in the direction of egalitarianism; to use universalism to prevent racism-sexism from moving too far in the direction of a caste system that would inhibit the work force mobility so necessary for the capitalist accumulation process.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Moving, Two, Practice

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• Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Politics, Economic

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• What is basic guerilla strategy? Guerilla strategy must be based primarily on alertness, mobility, and attack. It must be adjusted to the enemy situation, the terrain, the existing lines of communication, the relative strengths, the weather, and the situation of the people.

  Mao Zedong

  Communication, Weather, People

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1961). “On Guerrilla Warfare”, p.46, University of Illinois Press

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• 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.

  Joy Bryant

  Country, Rights, Usa

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