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“Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.”

Years Children Different Wanted Mother Social Genius Years Ago Doctors Bottom Lawyer Scales Cooks Thirty Architect

Author:Jacques Pepin

“No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.”

Men Has Beens Social Realizing He Man Structure Bottom Contact Social Structure

Book:Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.”

Nations Social Powerful Rich Bottom Globalization Ladders Exploits

Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.”

People Thinking Feels Facts Might Given Social Roles Cases Creation Originals Bottom Contradiction Immigrants Ladders Confined Social Roles

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“New Hampshire has always been cheap, mean, rural, small-minded, and reactionary. It's one of the few states in the nation with neither a sales tax nor an income tax. Social services are totally inadequate there, it ranks at the bottom in state aid to education--the state is literally shaped like a dunce cap--and its medical assistance program is virtually nonexistent. Expecting aid for the poor there is like looking for an egg under a basilisk.... The state encourages skinflints, cheapskates, shutwallets, and pinched little joykillers who move there as a tax refuge to save money.”

“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.”

Humans Children Problem Bigs School Nations Social Born Wealth Education Poverty Millions College Percent High School Bottom Fabric Stagnant Mobility Wedlock Disorganized Social Mobility

Author:David Brooks