Chuck Fishman Quotes

I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.

I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege.

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

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout to exercise their tiny portion of that opportunity.

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.

I am committed to leveling the playing field and expanding opportunity to all.

One of the things that I'm very proud to stand up and yell about is that we need to end gatekeeping in our society. We need to stop people from saying, 'You need to pass the test if you're going to come in here and do this.'

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.

I want every person in New South Wales, no matter where they live, to feel that they have the choices and the opportunities to be their best.

I was the first black director on 'Dallas.' I drove my car into the studio lot and the guard asked me who I was delivering to.

I feel like a lot of us have a story to tell, it's just that we don't get the platform or the access or the opportunity. I don't know how the goddesses and gods and the stars aligned. I got the opportunity, and I do have to note that a Hispanic woman gave me that opportunity.

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're on the menu.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.