A Quote by Pierre Omidyar

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

Pierre Omidyar

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Pierre Omidyar
French - Businessman
Born: June 21, 1967

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.

Pierre Omidyar

It's worrying to think more than half the world's population lacks internet access and therefore lacks an equal opportunity to improve their lives.

Richard Branson

The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

Brad Pitt

We're not all equal as far as intelligence is concerned. We're not equal as far as size. We're not all equal as far as appearance. We do not all have the same opportunities. We're not born in the same environments, but we're all absolutely equal in having the opportunity to make the most of what we have and not comparing or worrying about what others have.

John Wooden

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

John F. Kennedy

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

Ray Bradbury

We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.

Larry Gelbart

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

Satya Nadella

If by saying that all men are born equal, you mean that they are equally born, it is true, but true in no other sense; birth, talent, labor, virtue, and providence, are forever making differences

David Eugene Edwards

The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for relationships. It lacks reverence for the earth. It lacks love. And without those things, the feminine psyche disconnects.

Marianne Williamson

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Aristotle

Everyone is naked equally when they're born.

Jung Ae-ri

Everyone has equal wisdom. It is absolutely equally distributed. No one is wiser than anyone else.

Byron Katie

This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.