Ambition Quote by Richard Lamm

“Then there are families for whom education was not the focus at all. Instead children were expected to go into the family business, join…

— Valerie Young

Typically, during recessionary times, particular groups suffer higher rates of unemployment -African Americans, and Latinos, and in some cases other minority groups. If you…

— Hilda Solis

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of…

— Bella Abzug

Successful immigrants assimilate or become bi-cultural.

— David Starkey

I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits one can…

— John James Cowperthwaite

African-Americans are underrepresented.

— Arlen Specter

“Working with students and families from diverse class backgrounds, I am constantly amazed at how difficult it is to cross boundaries in this white…

— Bell Hooks

“Not all of the white working class struggles. I knew even as a child that there were two separate sets of mores and social…

— J.D. Vance

“However you want to define these two groups and their approach to giving—rich and poor; educated and uneducated; upper-class and working-class—their members increasingly occupy…

— J.D. Vance

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working…

— Charles Murray

I am a middle-class black, a college professor, far from wealthy, but also well removed from the kind of deprivation that would qualify my…

— Shelby Steele

African-Americans and black immigrants share a resilience and a determination for a better life.

— Opal Tometi