Socioeconomic Status Quotes

• No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

  Dream, Matter, Achieve

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• In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.

  Arne Duncan

  America, Quality, Zips

  FaceBook post by Secretary Arne Duncan from Nov 16, 2012

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• Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, because he made such a multiplicity of them.

  Edwin Newman

  People, Sides, Scientist

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another. If the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I? This is why Western Europeans, people who have lived in welfare states far longer than Americans have, give less to charity and volunteer less time to others than do Americans of the same socioeconomic status.

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Volunteer, Giving

  Dennis Prager (2012). “Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not been participating. It's a correlation, not a causation as far as the statisticians go, but the fascinating question is; Is there something in participation in sports, in community-building, confidence building, self-image-building, strength building, social networking - that greatly enhance employability?

  Timothy Shriver

  Sports, Self, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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