Confucius Quotes

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

Here, no privileged orders – no factitious distinctions in society – no hereditary nobility – no royal prerogatives exist, to interpose barriers between the people, and to create distinct classifications in society. All men being considered as enjoying an equality of rights, the propriety and necessity of dispensing, without distinction, the blessings of education ….

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

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.

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.

Superior ability is not the exclusive possession of any one race or any one class.

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

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.

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

Middle America believes in fair play, an equal opportunity to succeed or to fail.

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

True equality means holding everyone accountable in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology.

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

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

I care about education for everyone, not just the elite.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

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.

Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president.

No neighborhood is more important than another, no child is less deserving than his neighbor.

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

Real equality is the soul of the state in a democracy

To realize democracy it is necessary to absolutely eliminate ... colour from all State and social policy, unless you would justify ... caste, wealth, rank, birth and education, as giving title to privileged treatment ...

Where the effects of past discrimination persist, society has an obligation to take positive steps to overcome the legacy of injustice. Judiciously administered affirmative action programs in education and employment can be important expressions of the drive for solidarity and participation that is at the heart of true justice. Social harm calls for social relief.