#generations

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next. ↗

— Nicholas Kristof

#generations #inequality #inequity #opportunity #united-states

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#although #experience #fascinating #generations #human

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#before #belonged #brother #considerably #different

The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations. ↗

— Trent Lott

#backbone #comprise #force #generations #greatest

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#american #american society #brave #civil #civil rights

Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things? ↗

— Ken Mehlman

#choice #congress #earn #future #future generations

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#away #build #cast #centuries #combined

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#freedoms #friends #future #future generations #generations

Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the freedoms and the opportunity that we have inherited from those who came before us. ↗

— Alan Nunnelee

#came #country #freedoms #future #future generations

For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#cut #democrats #did #future #future generations