Iqbal Quadir Quotes

Sama means 'equal' in Sanskrit; I chose 'Samasource' because I thought it really reflected a value that I had and that I wanted the company to have, which is that everyone has equal capabilities and deserves an equal chance.

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.

Education levels the playing field, allowing everyone to compete.

I think if we could just level the playing field in life as much as possible, then we'd all be in a much better place.

I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

Education ... is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery.

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

Democrats are fighting to make sure that everyone, no matter your background, has a chance to get ahead.

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

I think this country is genuinely a meritocracy.

Everyone in the street where I grew up was given the same message: You can be anything; you can do anything. That wasn't extraordinary; that was ordinary for us. My folks didn't believe in black exceptionalism. There's nothing exceptional about 'You can have that, too' - except when it comes to justice. You can't have that.

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

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

The idea of freedom is quite in accord with a general, though vague, sentiment among us; it is an idea of fair play, of giving everyone a chance; and nothing arouses more general and active indignation among our people than the belief that some one or some class is not getting a fair chance.

The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities!

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.