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If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

~ George Monbiot

George Monbiot American Dream Bootstraps Hard Work Wealth

It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. Bootstraps Equality Fair Reasonable Work Ethic

Everybody's entitled to that forty acres and a mule. You're going to do the work, but you have to have something to work with. If you don't have a job, where do you go from there? You hear people say Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and you don't even have shoes. You're barefooted. What are you going to pull yourself up by? Our country owes every citizen of the United States of America a means of livelihood. Not a handout, but a way to make it.

~ Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel Bootstraps Entitlements Race Welfare
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