Susan B. Anthony Quotes

Elect me for what I am, not for what I was born.

… 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.

It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

In our insistence upon equality of opportunity has our system advanced beyond all the world.

Our goal is a classless society.

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

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

All inequality that has no special utility to justify it is injustice.

If any one idea can justly be called the American idea, it is that a child's circumstances at birth should not determine the station in life that that child will occupy as an adult.

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.

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.

My father values talent. He is colorblind and gender neutral. When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, excellence, and effort.

Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we look like or who we love.

I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.

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

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

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 think this country is genuinely a meritocracy.

I'm a firm believer in young, old, tall, short, doesn't matter. Basketball is basketball. It's the way you approach it.

The public, unlike our governing elite, are not obsessed by race and sex. They are rightly interested only in the contents of the person's character.

I think a black man, purple man, Martian man can run the country... as long as he does right by the people.

We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.

I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have.