Equality Of Opportunity Quotes

• I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Inspiring, Opportunity, Equality

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

  Dick Feagler

  Opportunity, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  Irving Kristol

  Witty, Freedom, Humorous

  "Two Cheers for Capitalism". Book by Irving Kristol, May 11, 1978.

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• We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Opportunity, Equality, Disability

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.201, Best Books on

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• The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

  Robert Reich

  Philosophy, Opportunity, Equality

  "Robert Reich's Call to 'Reason'". A BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. June 16, 2004.

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• Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Money, Opportunity

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.604, Best Books on

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• Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

  Tony Honore

  Opportunity, Essence, Justice

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• A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Opportunity, Promise, Trying

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• This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Respect, Opportunity

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.57, Beacon Press

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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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• Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Heart, School, Responsibility

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• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  Jack Kemp

  Opportunity, Equality, Political

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• The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

  Paul Ryan

  Commitment, Opportunity, Giving

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Saving the American Idea". dailysignal.com. October 26, 2011.

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• I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.

  Herbert Hoover

  Opportunity, Government, Civilization

  Herbert Hoover (1934). “March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931”

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• Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Equality

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• Equality of opportunity is meaningless for those who do not have the capabilities to take advantage of it.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Opportunity, Economics, Advantage

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• Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

  Mike Rosen

  Believe, Opportunity, Outcomes

  Rocky Mountain News column, March 31, 2000.

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• We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Opportunity, Equality, Literature

  "Mind the Gap". Book by Ferdinand Mount, 2004.

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• Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Opportunity, Equality, Men

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1920). “The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man”

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• Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive, but equality of opportunity for all, genuine freedom for self-fulfilment, in which all men irrespective of caste or creed may share.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Country, Opportunity, Men

  Speech delivered at Benaras Hindu University Convocation on 1st December 1940, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

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• I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Opportunity, Squares

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.177, Cornell University Press

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• As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the school system is in the hands of the whites, you have a situation where the blacks are constantly begging the whites can they use this or can they use that. That's not any kind of equality of opportunity, nor does it lend toward one's dignity.

  Malcolm X

  School, Opportunity, Hands

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• In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Congress And The President, Giving, Civil War

  Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862

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• I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

  Janet Yellen

  Opportunity, Thinking, Trends

  "RPT-UPDATE 2-Citing U.S. values, Yellen says greatly concerned by rise in economic inequality". www.reuters.com. October 17, 2014.

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• There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, Men, Opportunity

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.27, tredition

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