A Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte
French - Statesman
August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821

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John F. Kennedy

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Mary Parker Follett

Our country has an opportunity to live up to our title as the leaders of the free world and to live up to our potential as being a beacon of freedom and hope and democracy - but not while that opportunity is not equal for everyone.

MJ Hegar

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

John F. Kennedy

We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.

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Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.

Wendy Kaminer

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Olof Palme

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

Mark Strand

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Allen West

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A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same tools of opportunity as men.

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Aristotle

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Shirin Ebadi

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.