rise together
RYZ tuh-GETH-er
raɪz təˈɡɛðərListen
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the principle that the advancement of any individual is most meaningful and most sustainable when it is accompanied by the advancement of the collective — that true progress means lifting others as you climb rather than leaving behind those with less access to opportunity; rise together is a rallying call for solidarity over competition, for collective liberation over individual escape from disadvantage, and for a vision of success that measures itself by how much it has enlarged the circle of flourishing rather than how much it has narrowed it; in gender equity work the phrase challenges successful women to use their positions of influence to change the systems that constrained them rather than pulling up the ladder behind them, recognising that individual achievement within an unjust system does not constitute the dismantling of that system
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