“I am coming down from the mountaintop to tell every young person that is poor and working class, and has been told regardless of the color of your skin that you don’t belong, don’t listen to them. They don’t even know how they got at those seats.”
– Michelle Obama
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Riddle from the Middle 
Michelle Obama’s combination of wisdom, compassion, and strength is phenomenal and inspiring.
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So very true.
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I adore Michelle Obama. She is such a strong woman – intelligent, encouraging and caring.
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Absolutely. I’ve been fascinated listening to her talk about their time in the White House and what that looked like for them.
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This is an amazing quote. Michelle Obama could teach us many things ☺️
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She really does have remarkable wisdom to share.
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Such great words. It’s a lot easier to climb the ladder when your already at the top and a lot harder for those where the ladder isn’t even on offer.
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Very well put.
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Laura, great quote. Too many folks with wealth were born on third base and thought they hit a triple. The former president used to a tout all he got from his father was a $1 million loan to get started. Actually, he got over $400 million transferred tax free before his father died, as discovered by an in-depth review by The New York Times. THat is some triple. Keith
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So very true. I struggle with this. A lot of people I know talk the party line of work hard and you get ahead but they just can’t seem to acknowledge we all have a different starting line. It’s frustrating for me — can’t imagine how irritating it must be to a Black or brown person to hear that mess.
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Laura, there was a study done by I believe the World Economic Forum. It revealed the old American Dream of hard work getting you ahead has waned. At the time of the study (it was roughly five to ten years ago), it revealed that who you were born to matters more than merit. America was down in the teens socio-economic class movement.
The time in America when this was less true was in the 1950s as America’s growth was a juggernaut and envied. Eisenhower got both acclaim and ridicule for keeping alive the FDR/ Truman investments in infrastructure, which fueled this growth.
What is interesting is in the book “Capital” which is a data based book by economist Thomas Piketty, this period was more an anomaly in America than a norm. Or, as Warren Buffett once said, he was born lucky – a white man in America.
Keith
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👍👍👍
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🙂
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