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  • Stronger than all the armies is an idea thats time has come. ... The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!

    Speech to Senate on the Civil Rights Bill, delivered 10 June 1964, Washington, D.C.
  • Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression.

  • Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but by their innate talent and drive.

    "The age of illusion". Interview with Jake Blumgart, www.salon.com. June 30, 2012.
  • We cannot expect in the immediate future that all women who seek it will achieve full equality of opportunity. But if women are tostart moving towards that goal, we must believe in ourselves or no one else will believe in us; we must match our aspirations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed.

  • In a world where inequality of ability is inevitable, anarchists do not sanction any attempt to produce equality by artificial or authoritarian means. The only equality they posit and will strive their utmost to defend is the equality of opportunity. This necessitates the maximum amount of freedom for each individual. This will not necessarily result in equality of incomes or wealth but will result in returns proportionate to service rendered.

  • Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

  • Equality of economic opportunity, in the context of private property, means equality of opportunity for the millions of capital-less households of today to buy, pay for, and employ in their lives the non-human factor of production, capital.

  • Opportunity could be defined in so many ways. There's one way of defining it, equality of opportunity, which is in fact the equality of capability, but the libertarians got there first and they have - like the Americans getting onto the moon, naming every crater after something like an astronaut - they have got there and named "opportunity" in a way that we cannot get ownership of now.

    "Interview: Amartya Sen on power to our citizens". Interview with Liam Byrne, liambyrne.co.uk. 2009.
  • 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.

    Jobs   Opportunity   Goal  
    "In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.
  • Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

  • God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies are not unjust by themselves; justice does not mean equality of result but equality of opportunity.

  • Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

  • I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth. I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that believes in equality of opportunity - my kids have had advantage over 99 percent of the kids in the country.

    Country   Believe   Kids  
  • We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.201, Best Books on
  • But there is no equality of opportunity under existing laws and customs. In the race for wealth, which the economist seems as unable to define as to guide, the toiler is most heavily handicapped in the very start.

    Opportunity   Race   Law  
  • The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

    "Rep. Paul Ryan on Saving the American Idea". dailysignal.com. October 26, 2011.
  • I believe in a real democratic system, with a state of law and freedom of the press. I believe in a free, open-market economy integrated with the world. And I believe in equality of opportunity. Those are my basic beliefs. On top of that, of course, I believe in some moral values.

  • In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

    Annual Message to Congress, 1 Dec. 1862
  • Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

    Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.604, Best Books on
  • Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.

  • There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

    Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.27, tredition
  • This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

    Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.57, Beacon Press
  • I am firmly opposed to the government entering into any business the major purpose of which is competition with our citizens... for the Federal Government deliberately to go out to build up and expand... a power and manufacturing business is to break down the initiative and enterprise of the American people; it is the destruction of equality of opportunity amongst our people, it is the negation of the ideals upon which our civilization has been based.

    Herbert Hoover (1934). “March 4, 1929, to October 1, 1931”
  • A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

  • Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.

  • I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

    Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.
  • I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. Weve got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

    "Stateline" with Eliza Blue, www.abc.net.au. March 22, 2010.
  • Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities.

  • Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

  • Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

    "Two Cheers for Capitalism". Book by Irving Kristol, May 11, 1978.
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