Equal Opportunity Quotes - Page 4

• Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Opportunity, Thinking, Equal

  "I think we changed the whole business ethos in India: Mukesh Ambani". Interview with Sudeep Chakravarti, indiatoday.intoday.in. June 30, 1993.

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• Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.

  John Brunner

  Opportunity, Ideas, Giving

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.216, Macmillan

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• I believe that the Constitution is not hostile to the idea that national problems can be solved at the national level through the cooperative efforts of the three coequal branches of government, the Congress, the executive and courts. But not every president, not every legislator and not every judge agrees that the federal government has the power to address and to try to remedy the twin national problems of poverty and access to equal opportunity.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Opportunity, Judging

  "Second Day of Hearings on the Nomination of Judge Roberts". www.nytimes.com. September 13, 2005.

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• I really believe in the goodness of Canadians. The idea that everyone should be given an equal opportunity to succeed in this country and particularly for children.

  Cindy Blackstock

  Country, Children, Believe

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Selfish, Opportunity

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• Femenizm for me is equal opportunities for everyone on the planet. If women are going to prostitute themselves, men should as well. There should be more male hookers. And eighteen-year-old women should demand satisfaction from their men.

  Radha Mitchell

  Opportunity, Men, Equal

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We are still a country where hard work and perseverance can earn you a better life... Yet we are rightfully troubled that many of our people are still caught in what seems to be a pervasive, unending financial struggle... every American deserves an equal opportunity to achieve success.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Perseverance, Struggle

  Marco Rubio’s speech on poverty, hotair.com. January 8, 2014.

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• The nature of the state is one thing, but there are other major challenges - what it will take to tackle the issues of social corruption, for example, social justice, and the economic system - and what are the future challenges when it comes to equality between the citizens, in particular in the field of the job market and equal opportunity for men and for women? This is at the centre of the question that is the Arab Awakening.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Jobs, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• There is a tremendous rise now in feminine awareness and wishing for equality, equal opportunities.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Opportunity, Wish, Awareness

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• It's interesting that in those countries like Taiwan or Korea, where nuns are given equal opportunities for study and practice, they also develop great social awareness.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Country, Opportunity, Korea

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• Nowadays with the internet, it's an equal opportunity brutal playing field. I mean, everyone is brutal to everybody half the time. People can be unbelievably brutal on the internet, about everything. But they can also be really, really nice. The problem is that human beings like to focus on the negative sometimes, unfortunately.

  Lea Thompson

  Nice, Mean, Opportunity

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think more than anything we wish to be heard and not to be shut down. I think this is a good thing to think about for any community; what is important is that our voices be heard and not swallowed in an abyss of history.

  Lady Gaga

  Taken, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm not a feminist,' some women say sternly as they march off to work where equal opportunity legislation protects them ... Women who say they are not feminists and act like individuals with basic human rights have just got their terminology wrong.

  Kaz Cooke

  Opportunity, Rights, Feminist

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• Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Powerful, Growing Up

  Marco Rubio (2015). “American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone”, p.56, Penguin

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• Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.

  Herbert Hoover

  Opportunity, Achievement, Demand

  Herbert Hoover (2005). “American Individualism”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Opportunity, Justice

  "Dune Genesis" by Frank Herbert , Omni, Vol. 2, No. 2 (p. 72), July 1980.

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• "[Lawyers who file class-action securities suits] is not a group you would want to marry into your family. "That said, more than half the time the people being sued by the Lerach firm are guilty of outrageous conduct. The problem is, they don't mind (suing) the other half. They are an equal opportunity litigator."

  Charlie Munger

  Opportunity, Class, People

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• You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in the abstract but you actively think people should seek it when it comes to the way you hire people, the way you compensate people, the way you treat women and men in professional settings and school, whatever the case, giving them equal opportunities without disadvantaging them because of their, for the fact that they're women. And to me that's what it means for me to be a feminist. I don't think it's that controversial.

  John Legend

  Believe, School, Mean

  "John Legend Has His Dad Jokes at the Ready". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. January 14, 2016.

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• Saying I want to pay women a fair wage is doing something and saying young black people deserve not to be called super predators but to be engaged from an economic standpoint that gives them an equal opportunity says doing something.I`m tired of talking.

  Killer Mike

  Tired, Opportunity, Talking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Whatever advantages may have arisen, in the past, out of the existence of a specially favored and highly privileged aristocracy, it is clear to me that today no argument can stand that supports unequal opportunity or any intrinsic disqualification for sharing in the whole of life.

  Margaret Mead

  Past, Opportunity, Equality

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

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• There's a lot of lies out there that we should catch and that have taken me a lot of time to sort of see, and reading up on it and getting educated on it. I'm reading a book that's about how images of beauty have hurt women along the decades. It's a very educating but infuriating thing to see, how we don't have equal opportunity because they're demanding so much more.

  Karla Souza

  Hurt, Lying, Reading

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Here's one redeeming quality about Donald Trump. He's an equal opportunity offender.

  Trevor Noah

  Opportunity, Quality, Redeeming Qualities

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks caught up in the criminal justice system. There's a problem when people profit from putting and keeping African Americans in prison. We need to do a better job as a nation understanding the real values the country's built upon in terms of fairness, equality and equal opportunity.

  Aldis Hodge

  Real, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• give the man of color an equal opportunity with the white, from the cradle to manhood, and from manhood to the grave, and you would discover the dignified statesman, the man of science, and the philosopher.

  Maria W. Stewart

  Equality, Men, Opportunity

  Maria W. Stewart (1879). “Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart: (Widow of the Late James W. Stewart) Now Matron of the Freedman's Hospital, and Presented in 1832 to the First African Baptist Church and Society of Boston, Mass”

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• One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future, would overturn well-established precedents on clean air, clean water, privacy, equal opportunity and religious liberty.

  Ralph Neas

  Religious, Opportunity, Air

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