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• It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Internet Access

  "'Our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point': As he gives £1m to UK start-ups Richard Branson reveals why he's backing the sharing economy". Interview with Eleanor Lawrie, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights and equal rights are still the great unfinished business of America. The suffering has been disproportionately borne by the weak, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and largely African-Americans, who were forced by poverty, illness, unequal opportunity to stay behind and bear the brunt of the storm's winds and floods. I believe that kind of disparate impact is morally wrong in this, the richest country in the world.

  Edward Kennedy

  Country, Believe, Opportunity

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

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• When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

  Peter Hain

  Opportunity, People, Justice

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• The erosion of equal opportunity is among the greatest threats to our exceptionalism as a nation. But it also provides us with an exciting and historic opportunity: to help more people than ever achieve the American Dream.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Opportunity, Erosion

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

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• As we move closer and closer to a nonsexist world, women will have an equal opportunity as men to be rejected, embarrassed, and humiliated beyond all consolation.

  Linda Sunshine

  Moving, Opportunity, Men

  Linda Sunshine (1989). “Women Who Date Too Much”, Plume

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• We owe every student in every neighborhood in New Jersey an equal opportunity to succeed. We know that more money, alone, is not the answer. We need to redefine success, and how we pursue that success, by the outcomes obtained by students.

  Thomas Kean, Jr.

  Opportunity, Needs, Answers

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• There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.

  Major Taylor

  Opportunity, Moral, Granted

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• Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Opportunity, Men, Sky

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• For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the abandonment of the ideal of equal opportunity but rather to its postponement: to the notion of achieving for the next generation what could not be achieved for the current one. And the chief means to this end was a brilliant American invention: universal, free, compulsory public education. This "solution" was especially important for children and families because it gave children a central role in achieving the national ideal.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Education, Children, Mean

  Kenneth Keniston (1977). “All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure”, Harcourt on Demand

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• America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Opportunity, America, Outcomes

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• The core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. We want equal opportunity, not equality of outcome. We want to make sure that there's upward mobility again, in our society and in our economy.

  Robert Reich

  Opportunity, Upward Mobility, Principles

  "Inequality for All". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk.

  Sarah Palin

  Success, Kids, Opportunity

  "First on CNN: Palin calls both McCain and Trump heroes" by Jake Tapper, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2015.

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• The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Followers, Equal

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• There are some die-hard male chauvinist pigs and there are some Neanderthal women who are threatened by equality - but the great majority, polls say 65% to 75% of women of America, of all ages, absolutely identify with the complete agenda of the women's movement: equal opportunity for jobs, education, professional training, the right to control your own body - your own reproductive process, freedom of choice, child care-the whole agenda.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Children, Opportunity

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• First and foremost, I'm a feminist. And basically that stems from a strong belief that all people and creatures deserve equal opportunity, rights and respect.

  Kathy Najimy

  Strong, Opportunity, Rights

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a fetish for damsels in distress.” “Don’t be sexist.” “Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.

  Cassandra Clare

  Opportunity, Gentleman, Sexist

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.

  John F. Kennedy

  Opportunity, Rights, Issues

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

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• To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

  Greg Hartley

  Fashion, Women, Opportunity

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• When they say all men are created equal, that bothers me. I told you some are thin, some are heavy, some have better eyesight than others. I don't know what that means. I think they're trying to talk about equal opportunity and I know that doesn't exist. If you don't have the money to go to college, the word 'equal opportunities' mean nothing

  Jacque Fresco

  Mean, Opportunity, College

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• It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.

  Ron Reagan

  Animal, Opportunity, Pigs

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• Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty.

  Dalai Lama

  Opportunity, Miracle, Challenges

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• Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

  Everett Dirksen

  Opportunity, Men, Color

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