Equal Opportunity Quotes

• All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.446, Best Books on

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• Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• No two individuals are ever the same. You cannot equate people. You can only create equal opportunity.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Opportunity

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• Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

  John F. Kennedy

  Teaching, Learning, Opportunity

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• We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Opportunity, Moments

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• We were a land of opportunity. You can never have equal outcomes, but you can have equal opportunity.

  Jamie Dimon

  Opportunity, Equal

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• I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

  Nelson Mandela

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Equality

  Statement at trial, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 Apr. 1964

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• Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.

  Denis Waitley

  Time, Procrastination, Past

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• Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

  Pierre Omidyar

  Opportunity, Born, Equal

  "eBay Founder Pierre Omidyar On Why He’s Dropped $1 Billion To Make The World A Better Place" by Eleanor Goldberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2011.

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspiring, Children, Home

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opportunity, Equality, Ideas

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.135, A&C Black

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• Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

  David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

  Opportunity, Equality, Talent

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• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Home, Rights, Community

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.190, Columbia University Press

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• During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Apr 20, 2014

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• We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Opportunity, Average

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

  Leymah Gbowee

  Opportunity, Equal, Everyone Is Equal

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  Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

  Ayrton Senna

  Men, Islands, Air

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• While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.

  Adam Schiff

  Beautiful, Dream, Country

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• The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Opportunity, Needs, Addresses

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• As believers we all have an opportunity and moral obligation to recognize our spiritual common ground; to rise above our differences; to combat prejudice and intolerance.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Inspirational, God, Spiritual

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• Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it...and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are, or where we're from, or what we look like, or who we love.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Country, Opportunity

  Michelle Obama's Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

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• No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

  Denis Waitley

  Procrastination, Past, Matter

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• Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Opportunity, Giving

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• We need to make equal pay and equal opportunity for women and girls a reality so women's rights are human rights once and for all.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Opportunity, Reality

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• I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.

  Helen Suzman

  Inspirational, Fighting, Opportunity

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