Maynard Jackson Quotes

All children should have equal opportunities.

Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

Our aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispension in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights, treatment and opportunity in every sphere of endeavour—constitutional, social and economic.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status.

We are all about the equality through society and sport.

When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.

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.

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal 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.

We seek not just freedom, but opportunity … not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.

We are a nation without classes or special privileges.

You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, “you are free to compete with all the others”, and still justly believe that you have been completely fair. Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through the those gates.

I have always been for absolute equality of privileges and obligations.

Equality is equity.

At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

Ending discrimination and extending equality should always be a national priority.

The idea of bringing equality not just to entertainment but to every walk of life - I think it's very important.

I want my kids to grow up in a world where everybody gets a fair shot.

I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.