Carter G. Woodson Quotes

What I want is the same opportunities as anyone to get a part.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

I'm changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly.

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

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.

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

All men will commence in their present rank and promotion will be open to all men alike, without any distinctions or qualifications, political or otherwise.

We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop.

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

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.

All children should have equal opportunities.

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

Equality of opportunity means the achievers must be allowed to achieve.

Necessity apportions impartially to high and low alike.

I was a firm believer that every cricketer needs to get a fair chance.

We were a land of opportunity. You can never have equal outcomes, but you can have equal opportunity.

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.

Perhaps McCain has opposed affirmative action for so long that he doesn't know it's about inviting more people to meet standards, not lowering them.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

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.

I don't think that the status of a show, big or small, should affect a person's performance.

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

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.