Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Parents with meager means have the same aspirations for their children as other parents. Children from poor families have the same needs as other children.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Labour was founded to make the lives of working people better and to create more opportunities for everyone. Whether it's aspiring to work as a nurse in a hospital or setting up and running your own business, Labour should be about ensuring fairness so that everyone has the same chance in life to reach their goals.

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

What is the American dream? The American dream is one big tent. One big tent. And on that big tent you have four basic promises: equal protection under the law, equal opportunity, equal access, and fair share.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

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

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.

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

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

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.

To be prosperous is not to be superior, and should form no barrier between men. Wealth ought not to secure the prosperous the slightest consideration.

Labour’s message then is this: we believe in a strong economy; we believe also in a fair go for all, not just for some.

Ted Kennedy’s life’s work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections. It was to give a voice to those who were not heard, to add a rung to the ladder of opportunity, to make real the dream of our founding.

Very few of the rich are in the army except as officers. Our mission is to disenthrall just such men, to open up before them a brighter future for themselves and their children. Labor must be dignified in the south, and all must have an equal chance.

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people can’t. But I don’t believe that the federal government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, when there is a moral factor involved.

We do have to ask ourselves as a culture, what do we want to be? You know, what are our founding values? And if we are a society where everybody should have that fair shot and get a second chance, then we should take the necessary steps to implement that and make it a reality.

Economic inequality is not about food stamps and homeless shelters. It is about being a devotee of social justice and equality.

American greatness can be further unlocked if opportunity is expanded to all people within its borders.

The idea of bringing equality not just to entertainment but to every walk of life - I think it's very important.

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

We are all about the equality through society and sport.