Laura Wade Quotes

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

I don't think anybody can claim success at any part of our lives, private or professional, if there are others that don't enjoy the same opportunities.

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

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

I think this country is genuinely a meritocracy.

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

If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.

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

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

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.

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.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

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.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of 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.

The advantages and privileges which have hitherto enjoyed by the few shall be far more widely shared by the many.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

In a country where there is no privileged class, genius and industry may attain the highest honors.

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work.

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.

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

As Americans, I think we really believe that with the meritocracy that exists in our country, the equality of opportunity is so important to the foundation of our culture and our society.

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

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