Danielle Macdonald Quotes

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

We're not all equal, it's simply not true. That isn't science.

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

Sometimes it leads me even to hesitate whether I am strictly correct in my idea that all men are born to equal rights, for their conduct seems to me to contravene the doctrine.

We are also further than ever from equality of 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.

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.

My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

If the spirit of equality means anything, it means like opportunity, and if we once lose like opportunity, we lose the only chance we have toward equality throughout the nation.

Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

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.

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

Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

Justice is not available to all equally; it is something that many of us must struggle to achieve.

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

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.

While it is true that all individuals are equal under the law, this hardly implies that they are created equal.

I hate the unfairness of injustice. Anybody who thinks they are better than others or 'chosen' or feel they have an entitlement... be it through monarchy, government or money. I think we are all born the same. We are entitled to an equal shot at life.

The world is not a meritocracy, as much as we may like to pretend that it is. And we have a long way to go before we really reward people based on their own merit.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.