Quote by Alexis Herman
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate toda

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. – Alexis Herman

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If we cant begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future. – Alexis Herman

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Education is important because, first of all, people need to know that discrimination still exists. It is still real in the workplace, and we should not take that for granted. – Alexis Herman

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The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clintons leadership. – Alexis Herman

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[I]t is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o’clock. – Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980

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My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. – George Weinberg

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