Karen Carney Quotes

All women deserve a dignified and respectful workplace in which talent, hard work and loyalty are recognized, revered, and rewarded.

If you're good at what you do, it's going to quiet the people that think you're not good because of how you look or what sex you are.

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.

No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'

I want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had.

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

We need a country that embraces all, and rewards innovators, entrepreneurs, job creators, and hard-working people of all sorts.

I don’t care if he is black, blue or green. He is the best man for the job.

… the color of the skin is a condition entirely to be disregarded … I have little patience with … any other tests than those of regularity, character, manhood, and intelligence.

I'd like to think that the door is always open for just the best actor for the role, you know? Race or gender shouldn't have anything to do with it, unless the character or story is focused on that for some particular reason.

I think women benefit from being in places and having positions where the quality of work is the criteria, not what you look like. Not every place is like that.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

We need to stop judging individuals based on their race, profession, gender, religion, or anything other than their own individual behavior and character.

The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.

I would like my kids to inherit a world where people succeed because of merit and hard work, not entitlement, and where people accept others for what they are and not try to change them.

What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you're going. Our job is to make certain the pathways are open to both our boys and our girls.

What women need are not benefits and advantages but a merit-based selection process that will allow them to automatically benefit from various opportunities.

Other things equal, we should give a chance to women. That's what I try to do.

As far as I can tell most people in football do not take colour into account when judging people. I certainly don't.

Real progress will have been made when people don't care or even notice the color of a comedian when they'll just be concerned with whether he's funny.