Leymah Gbowee Quotes

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.

Equality is equity.

Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status.

Everybody's equal. Everybody should deserve the same opportunity, the same challenge, the same whatever.

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

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.

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

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

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.

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.

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.

Our aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispension in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights, treatment and opportunity in every sphere of endeavour—constitutional, social and economic.

I have always been for absolute equality of privileges and obligations.

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

If we're going to have the view that we're going to protect everyone in this society equally, we have to mean it.

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

I think that everybody should have the same opportunities.

I get treated like everyone else, and that's the way it should be.

I'm most passionate about, you know, making everybody understand that we should all have equal access on this earth.

I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

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

The promise of equality is not the same as true equality.

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.

All children should have equal opportunities.