Top 1200 Equality Of Opportunity Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I recognise a lot of myself in these kids who enter shows like Pop Idol. It's very hard to get into the music industry and you have to take every opportunity that you can. Something like Pop Idol is a great opportunity but unfortunately, I think it's tainted by the people that make these shows.

There's nothing a priori good about equality. One person has three televisions, the other has two, so what?

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

When we kind of get caught up in the minutiae, the details that make us all different, I think there's two ways of seeing that. There's an opportunity to see the texture of that person, the characteristics that make them unique. And then there's an opportunity to go to war about it and to say that that person is different from me and I don't like you, so let's battle.

Gender equality has a transformative effect that is essential to fully functioning communities, societies, and economies.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

As far as dude running the ball, or running with the ball, and somebody hit you helmet to helmet, I think you got an opportunity to go down. You got an opportunity to slide.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The need for a national Employment Non-Discrimination Act a critical part of the LGBT community's struggle for equality.

We must keep fighting until using the word 'equality' isn't necessary because we will all be living as one.

We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

People just like to talk about equality, but it is difficult for them to see any change.

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I'm interested in the opportunity that people can self-create using social media and the online dialogue. Before social media, you needed to have a lot of personal funds to break through to hire the right people and build a presence to start a line. It gives the opportunity and platform for people to be discovered.

I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

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I'm still learning every night, with every opportunity to write something, to sing something, to perform any work. Every opportunity to do these things brings me further along the journey, and the best part is, no matter how far along I go, I have so much more to learn.

I didn't change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny?

Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.

German equality of rights is the prerequisite for any participation on Germany's part in international conventions and agreements.

Anybody who watched football last year knows they're good. But that represents a very good opportunity for us. It really does. I think somehow, if we're able to pull that off, I think it will go a long way for our confidence. I look at it as a great opportunity, and hopefully we'll be at our best when we get there.

We will not achieve gender equality in the workplace until we fix our system of parental leave.

I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.

Freedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other.

I'm personally supportive of marriage equality for gay couples and I believe that it will happen over time.

Esteem incites friendship, but not love; the former is the twin brother of Reverence; the latter is the child of Equality.

In India, freedom has to be about equality - mainly between men and women in terms of education and work.

I will return to Libya and undertake my duties and obligations to bring equality within the chaos.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build India into a land of equal opportunity for all. We can be a truly great nation if we set our sights high and deliver to the people the fruits of continued growth, prosperity and equal opportunity.

What the champions of suffrage understood was that the vote is not just a symbol of our equality, but that it can be, if used, a guarantee of results.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Today, it's about gender equality, not neutrality. Anyone who doesn't agree would be a bit of an idiot.

Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

I was down in Tampa and it just wasn't a good setup for me, all things considered. But it also gave me the opportunity to get out of there and kind of start over. The Giants, fortunately for me, gave me the opportunity, another shot. I'm just trying to make the most of it.

As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.

There needs to be radical development in equality law to create the environment to allow women to stay in work.

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

Both at home and abroad, Ivanka Trump has been a strong and confident advocate for female equality.

We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.

Let's have a People's Vote to safeguard gender equality and continue the drive towards a fairer world for us all.