Charlotte Bronte Quotes

The internet has given pure equality to everyone. The cream rises to the top. It is the era of not take a job, but create your own job.

There are people a lot smarter, a lot more talented than I am, people who've accomplished things I can only imagine. Often, they started from the most humble of circumstances. That's my message: freedom and opportunity. That's the American Dream.

I accept a character purely based on its merits and not on any other criteria.

That's the beauty of America - the fact that all of us can be anything we want to be if we put in the work.

For immigrant women, the very act of immigration is about opportunity, equality, and freedom. Women immigrants come to America to care for their families, escape gender-based violence, or express their sexual identity.

This is America. In our country it doesn't matter a lick where you are from, it only matters where you're going.

There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.

The best players must play - it does not matter whether they are old or young.

They don't call it the Italian Dream or the English Dream. In America, there is the American Dream. It was the first place to give people of any social background their dream. You can achieve anything.

The American Dream means any person can achieve prosperity through hard work and ingenuity because there are no inherent barriers in our society.

I have been around for 33 years and I don't have a filmy background. I don't know if I am an insider or an outsider but I have never felt any discrimination.

I'm not interested in nationality. Players are neither English, French, or any nationality. They are not young or old. They are stronger or not strong.

Football has never been about young or old players - it is about good or bad players. If you're 13 or 31 and good enough, you're not too young or old.

I never looked at the bigger picture. I was just so passionate about football; I just wanted an opportunity to play with no barriers and no stigma.

Everyone deserves the opportunity to fight for the part they want.

I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important.

The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.

A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people.

I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel safe to speak the truth of their lives.

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel. It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. It makes her feel as if she were independent... the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women