Bootstraps
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Though Hughes’s father taught him that realizing the “American dream” is a matter of pulling oneself up by one’s
bootstraps
, Hughes eventually reached the opposite conclusion.
More example sentences with word bootstraps
I realized that my story stood in for all those who were expected to pick themselves up by their bootstraps, even if they didn't have any boots; that my organization stood in for all the structural, systemic help that never went to Harlem or Appalachia or the Lower 9th Ward; that my voice stood in for all those voices that seemed too unlearned, too unwashed, too unaccommodated.
You can sit there and tell me all you want, "Hey man, pick yourself up by the bootstraps."
They basically pulled themselves up by the bootstraps."
When I began this process, and we began this process, I realized that I had a limited understanding of homelessness and the factors that impacted it, and that I needed a fairly major change in my belief, in my thinking, because I had been raised with the theory of rugged individualism and "pull yourself up by the bootstraps."
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