Peter Schmeichel Quotes

If you exclude a group of people from the boardroom or the leadership ranks of a company, the company is not as good as it could be.

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.

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.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

Nobody voted for me on account of my origins. People voted for me because of what I am and what I stand for.

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.

Nobody wants to be in a position of defending anything Fox might do for minorities.

There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

The people in the decision-making positions need to be thinking differently about who to hire, and looking more unsparingly at their choices. Why give this person a break over that person? Why give this person a second chance over that person? I do think that's where gender comes into play.

When I stopped racing, I kept being asked to comment on diversity in the sport but I really felt I had done my part.

Win on your merit, not your skin color.

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

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

Actors have no color. That's the art form.

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

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.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

... equal responsibilities are less popular than equal rights.