Albert Camus Quotes

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

The Fairness Project is endeavoring to try to do what we can to make a fairer society.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

The advantages and privileges which have hitherto enjoyed by the few shall be far more widely shared by the many.

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.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration.

We not only need community development but we need equitable development.

It is not charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for.

We are building together a nation in which there are no second-class Australians.

I am committed to leveling the playing field and expanding opportunity to all.

We do have to ask ourselves as a culture, what do we want to be? You know, what are our founding values? And if we are a society where everybody should have that fair shot and get a second chance, then we should take the necessary steps to implement that and make it a reality.

If we don't at least try to make the future more equitable, most of us will left with simply scraps.

We need an inspiring vision of equality that resonates in the hearts, minds, and souls of all Americans.

Democrats believe in a New South because no matter your race, immigration status, income, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity, we all have the same aspirations for high-quality education, jobs, neighborhoods, health care, and retirement.

We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.

I want my kids to grow up in a world where everybody gets a fair shot.

I want every person in New South Wales, no matter where they live, to feel that they have the choices and the opportunities to be their best.

Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.

To me, that is really fundamental to social justice: to have choices in life.