John Amery Quotes

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

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

Equality of opportunity means the achievers must be allowed to achieve.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

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

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Sama means 'equal' in Sanskrit; I chose 'Samasource' because I thought it really reflected a value that I had and that I wanted the company to have, which is that everyone has equal capabilities and deserves an equal chance.

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.

President Obama believes in a level playing field.

Our aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispension in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights, treatment and opportunity in every sphere of endeavour—constitutional, social and economic.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

In America, opportunity and equality are not a zero-sum game

The supreme test of a democracy is the measure of equality of opportunity that it affords to its citizens to rise to the highest point of authority and position.

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

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work.

We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American; she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.

I have always been for absolute equality of privileges and obligations.

Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.