American society as a whole ...

American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
 Jack Kemp

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.
 Jack Kemp
With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.
 Jack Kemp
We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.
 Jack Kemp
I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.
 Jack Kemp
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
 Jack Kemp