Jaggi Vasudev Quotes

I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Equal doesn't mean identical.

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

I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.

We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.

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

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 want to be elected on my own ability. Only then do you have progress... People should not use race as a basis for labelling me.

You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Fairness is not about statistical equality.

There's place and means for every man alive.

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.

Accomplishments have no color.

On the field, everyone is equal.

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

This country demands that every race measure itself by the American standard. By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail…

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.

Elect me for what I am, not for what I was born.

Equal opportunity for all, special privilege for none.

In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

No one enjoys being equal.

Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there.