Rachel Campos-Duffy Quotes

A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success.

As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.

Some kids win the lottery at birth; far too many don't - and most people have a hard time catching up over the rest of their lives. Children raised in disadvantaged environments are not only much less likely to succeed in school or in society, but they are also much less likely to be healthy adults.

It might be that my poverty is my fault—the result of my ineptitude or my laziness. However, is there any way that the poverty that my child is condemned to is his fault? He certainly does not have the same opportunity as my child would if I were rich. But where then is our equality of opportunity?

This is what I think about poverty: why waste the potential of people? You never know what you've got going in society unless you give people a chance.

When you don't have equality of opportunity because you don't have equal access to education, it just seems so outrageous. It weakens our economy and leads to more inequality.

I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.

Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?

If we don't empower families to be able to have a quality education, then their children - for the first time in American history, truly the first time - will not have the same economic opportunities.

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

People don't say, 'I just had a kid and I hope it turns out to be a factory worker.'

Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.

Better educated than wealthy

Some men will be always able to pay more for their children's education than others; and that those children will, inevitably, win in the struggle of life.

It was because there was no platform upon which they could stand ... no method by which the communities could translate their desires for those individuals into provision for those individuals.

The great mass of the poor in countries are become an hereditary race, and it is next to impossible them to get out of that state of themselves

The capacity of children to become self-sufficient and successful adults is compromised not only by monetary poverty, but by poverty of experience, influence, and expectation

The gap between aspiration and reality could hardly be wider. Today, the United States has less equality of opportunity than almost any other advanced industrial country. Study after study has exposed the myth that America is a land of opportunity. This is especially tragic: While Americans may differ on the desirability of equality of outcomes, there is near-universal consensus that inequality of opportunity is indefensible.

We know what works. What works are the very opportunities that advantaged families provide for their children.

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.

I was the original little guy. This country gave me an opportunity. I want our tax system to do the same for others facing those same circumstances.

I'm from working-class, blue-collar America, and I don't believe that people in that socioeconomic strata wait until they're 40 to have children.

Giving all of Denver's kids an equal chance at success is the best investment we can make in our community's kids and future.